DESCOMPOSED

Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization-an evolution from physical d iscs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a sign ificant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncovers the hidden history of recorded music-what recordings are made of and what happens to them when they are disp osed of.