The distributed Gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, worlding, and new media culture

Computers and Composition

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 296-316

  Rickert, Thomas ^a   Salvo, Michael ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brian Eno; Distributed cognition; Feedback; GarageBand; Gesamptkunstwerk; Multimedia; Music; New media; Prosumer; The Flaming Lips; Total art work; Yes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748163911     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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