A review by ericabasnicki
Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture by Paul D. Miller, Roy Christopher

4.0

It’s challenging to rate this book properly. The essays vary wildly in quality and, in my opinion, relevance. However, through this book I’ve been introduced to countless new books, artists, musicians, ideas etc. As a springboard for further exploration, it excels. As a cohesive collection about “sound” within the context of sampling, digital music and culture it falters. I suspect because of an overly ambitious/broad range of topics, or because by now this collection is over 10 years old. Nevertheless, it’s a book I’m keeping as I suspect I’ll refer back to it frequently. There’s a fair amount of gold within the pages, it just takes a bit of digging to find it.