Chris Castiglione » rhizome http://www.ccastig.com Chris Castiglione, New Media, Development, Music, University of Amsterdam, New York City Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:28:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic http://www.ccastig.com/2009/02/25/digital-music-becomes-more-rhizomatic/ http://www.ccastig.com/2009/02/25/digital-music-becomes-more-rhizomatic/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:35:12 +0000 Chris Castiglione http://www.ccastig.com/?p=436 rhizomeAs digital audio files continue to flow freely on the Internet, music itself mimics certain inherent characteristics of the web best understood through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s (D&G) rhizome metaphor. In A Thousand Plateaus, D&G introduce the concept of a “rhizome” to describe a representative model that extends in all directions and has multiple entryways; since then it has most commonly been used as a metaphor to represent the Internet. Understanding digital music as rhizomatic is important because it interprets the transformations of the digital music culture as a natural progression towards rhizomatic qualities – and provides us with an insight into what might be the future of “the music industry”.

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