Laptopia: The Spatial Poetics of Networked Laptop Performance.

Networked laptop performances prompt the articulation of new spatial poetics incorporating distributed modes of production, collaboration and reception. This article first tracks production in terms of Internet sampling: the browser-based DJ mixes of em.chia and the dj rabbi collective; direct file...

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Published in:Contemporary Music Review Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 11 - 23
Main Author: Reddell, Trace
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2003
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