June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
6h 49m
English
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, ...