“It’s music, a human thought structure” Music as a technology of cyborgs in Spanish cyberpunk films
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In this article, I discuss how two Spanish cyberpunk films, Eva and Autómata, imagine cyborgs and represent music as a part of their relational capacities with artifacts, entities, and environments. Through an interconnected analysis, I present the idea of musical ecology as an articulation between cyberpunk sonic conventions and pre-existing music. Another topic is the post-human subject, which I name the assemblage music-cyborgs where sonic phenomena are an intrinsic and active agent of their construction. The main conclusion is that music is a metaphor for humanity and a channel to new modes of subjectivity intended to reconfigure musical production, listening, interpretation and pleasure.
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