Email Author Erik Davis

1999 Stories by Erik Davis

• Phased & Konfused

  published March 30, 1999

  Steve Reich's music hums with vibrating waves of our century's ocean of sound, an ocean that swallows up Charlie Parker and Junior Walker, African... More >>

• The Posthuman Touch

  published March 16, 1999

  With something like 10 percent of the population already dependent on doodads like digital pacemakers, cochlear implants, and artificial skin, the... More >>

• Melancholy Machines

  published January 19, 1999

  Ever since Luigi Russolo bent his avant-garde ear to trains, bombs, and automobiles, declaring the arrival of a new "art of noises," the music of... More >>