Sounding Human

An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music.   From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In Sounding Human , Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and