The interface and instrumentality of Eurorack modular synthesis

Bates, Eliot

doi:10.4324/9780429268830-11

“…10 The ambivalence of critical organology in these terms -its fluctuation between a focus on 'things' and the analysis of digital music materialities as assemblages -is played out in Hennion and Levaux (2021), a collection bringing STS to music studies. See the contrasts between Harkins (2021, which focuses on the Fairlight CMI) and Bates (2021) and Prior (2021;cf. Prior 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We cannot equate materiality in digital music assemblages, then, solely with physical objects, but have to consider the materialities of code, of electromagnetic waves, indeed of sound itself -entities that stretch or defy orthodox definitions of an 'object'. But digital music's materialities are additionally complex in being inherently multiple, built of many communicating and articulated layers of hardware and software, in the sense not only that hardware always comes to us encrusted with software but that software is itself immanently multiple, composed of many layers of code, and in the way that digital and analogue devices and processes are invariably combined and mutually compounding (Born , 1997Bates 2021). 10 The digital-and-analogue assemblages that we address therefore present a formidable challenge to material analysis.…”

Section: Music Materialities Aesthetics and Stsmentioning

confidence: 99%

:Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology

Erlmann

2023

Journal of Anthropological Research

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Music and Digital Media is a groundbreaking update to our understandings of sound, media, digitization, and music. Truly transdisciplinary and transnational in scope, it innovates methodologically through new models for collaboration, multi-sited ethnography, and comparative work. It also offers an important defense of-and advancement of-theories of mediation.' -Jonathan Sterne, Communication Studies and Art History, McGill University 'This superb collection, with an authoritative overview as its introduction, represents the state of the art in studies of the digitalisation of music. It is also a testament to what anthropology at its reflexive best can offer the rest of the social sciences and humanities.' -David Hesmondhalgh, Media and Communication, University of Leeds 'Spanning continents and academic disciplines, the rich ethnographies contained in Music and Digital Media makes it obligatory reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex, contradictory, and momentous effects that digitization is having on musical cultures.'

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“…10 The ambivalence of critical organology in these terms -its fluctuation between a focus on 'things' and the analysis of digital music materialities as assemblages -is played out in Hennion and Levaux (2021), a collection bringing STS to music studies. See the contrasts between Harkins (2021, which focuses on the Fairlight CMI) and Bates (2021) and Prior (2021;cf. Prior 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We cannot equate materiality in digital music assemblages, then, solely with physical objects, but have to consider the materialities of code, of electromagnetic waves, indeed of sound itself -entities that stretch or defy orthodox definitions of an 'object'. But digital music's materialities are additionally complex in being inherently multiple, built of many communicating and articulated layers of hardware and software, in the sense not only that hardware always comes to us encrusted with software but that software is itself immanently multiple, composed of many layers of code, and in the way that digital and analogue devices and processes are invariably combined and mutually compounding (Born , 1997Bates 2021). 10 The digital-and-analogue assemblages that we address therefore present a formidable challenge to material analysis.…”

Section: Music Materialities Aesthetics and Stsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Music and Digital Media: A planetary anthology

2022

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Anthropology has neglected the study of music. Music and Digital Media shows how and why this should be redressed. It does so by enabling music to expand the horizons of digital anthropology, demonstrating how the field can build interdisciplinary links to music and sound studies, digital/media studies, and science and technology studies. Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital assume clamouring audibility. The book contains ten chapters, eight of which present comprehensive original ethnographies; they are bookended by an authoritative introduction and a comparative postlude. Five chapters address popular, folk, art and crossover musics in the global South and North, including Kenya, Argentina, India, Canada and the UK. Three chapters bring the digital experimentally to the fore, presenting pioneering ethnographies of an extra-legal peer-to-peer site and the streaming platform Spotify, a series of prominent internet-mediated music genres, and the first ethnography of a global software package, the interactive music platform Max. The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk, art and crossover musics from the global North and South into a comparative framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for comparative anthropology. It shows how music enlarges anthropology while demanding to be understood with reference to classic themes of anthropological theory.

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The Expressive Subject: Prosumers, Virtuosi, and Digital Musical Control

Terren

2024

Creative Working Lives

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:Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology

:Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology

Music and Digital Media: A planetary anthology

The Expressive Subject: Prosumers, Virtuosi, and Digital Musical Control

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