8Versioning Time-Based Media
Premise: This chapter explores the aesthetics of versioning in time-based media. It considers how the same source material can be edited in order to develop multiple works in art and media design.
A version in the history of Jamaican music is a different interpretation of a music composition. It has been deeply explored in dub, a subgenre of reggae consisting of instrumental mixes of a song often including echoes and reverbs on top of added instruments, as well as fragmented lyrics and other abstract sounds.1 Versioning in dub took place throughout the seventies, and is a pivotal creative moment when a focus on the process of postproduction became prevalent. The pioneers of versioning, ...
Get Art, Media Design, and Postproduction now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
