Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction

ISBN-13: 9780367879716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 430 str.

Gianmario Borio

Opis

It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our relationship with music in a myriad of ways. This volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the relations between sound, technology and listening practices, considered from the complementary perspectives of art music and

Spis treści

Part 1 Facets of a Theoretical Question  1.Aesthetic Experience Under the Aegis of Technology.  2. Ideological, Social and Perceptual Factors in Live and Recorded Music.  3. On the Evolution of Private Record Collections: A Short Story.  4. Music and Technical Reproducibility: A Paradigm Shift.  5. Algorithmic and Nostalgic Listening: Post-subjective Implications of Computational and Empirical Research.  6. Listening to Histories of Listening: Collaborative Experiments in Acoustemology with Nii Otoo Annan.  Part 2 Remediations  7. Remediation or Opera on Screen? Some Misunderstandings Regarding Recent Research.  8. Between Mediatization and Live Performance: The Music for Giorgio Strehler’s The Tempest (1978).  9. The ‘Remediated’ Rite of Spring.  Part 3 Listening with Images  10. Listening to Images: A Historical Overview of Theoretical Reflection.  11. Seeing Sounds, Hearing Images: Listening Outside the Modernist Box.  12. The Transformation of Musical Listening: The Case of Electroacoustic Music.  Part 4 Recordings and the New Aura  13. Neo-auratic Encoding: Phenomenological Framework and Operational Patterns.  14. ‘If a Song Could Get Me You’: Analysis and the (Pop) Listener’s Perspective.  15. The Persistence of Analogue.  Part 5 Composing and Performing with Electronic Means  16. Semiconducting: Making Music after the Transistor.  17. ‘Live is Dead?’: Some Remarks about Live Electronics Practice and Listening.  18. Sonic Imprints: Instrumental Resynthesis in Contemporary Composition.  Part 6 Audiovisual Documentation in Ethnomusicological Research  19. New Trends in the Use of Audiovisual (and Audio) Technology in Contemporary Et

O autorze

Gianmario Borio is Professor of Musicology at the University of Pavia and Director of the Institute of Music at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.