ICMS Research Series - Kit Mackintosh

Neon Screams: Vocal Psychedelia and The Auto-Tune Revolution

The most radical music of the 21st century operates in the extremes of the digitised voiceit’s music in which posthuman vocals have become the primary engines of innovation and timbral invention.

This talk takes you through the Auto-Tune revolution in Jamaica and beyond, providing a paradigm through which this epochal musical moment can be understood, analysed, and appreciated.