PRESENTATION: SONGS IN THE KEY OF MP3

Music and fiction writer Liam Inscoe-Jones talks about his book Songs In The Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age. His talk will guide you through the work of the first generation of digital native musicians, born into all of the boundary-breaking, genre melding possibilities opened up by the early Internet. Liam will examine the ways in which the 2010s saw the conceptions of genre and taste explode, and pick apart the decade to find the ways in which the streaming era changed how listeners perceive the very concept of music as an art form. Finally, in a world defined by AI and technofeudalism, he’ll ask where things might be heading next.