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Technology and society: Phonography and its applications [PDF]
There is a prevailing consensus in the literature to relate phonography research to the decreasing aesthetic autonomy of music and distracted listening. However, in an alternative phonographic experience, the same technology can serve as a tool for deep ...
Moraczewski, Krzysztof
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What Time is the Visual? Photography and the History of the Future
Abstract Part of a broader inquiry that asks, “What time is the visual?” this article uses ethnographic observations and recent theoretical work to suggest that photography is as much future‐oriented as it is a zone for the preservation of the past. I document different temporal orientations of photographs, drawing on historical studio images featuring
Christopher Pinney
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The memory of audio carriers: Image, motion and sound [PDF]
This article analyses the technical possibilities and cultural significance of the most important sound recording devices and audio carriers. The experience with the reception of the sound material mediated by the successive inventions of audio ...
Misiak, Tomasz
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L’opera musicale fra oralità, scrittura e fonografia
Technical reproducibility and recording have had important consequences on the production of musical works. The ontological identity and aesthetic functioning of the latter are explained in this article in the light of three main ways of organisation of ...
Alessandro Arbo
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Plato on the Stream. Platonism in the Age of Streaming
This article defends a Platonist view of streaming. It is opposite to the mainstream representation that streaming has “liquidated” the structure both objective and collective of musical experience. On the contrary, streaming is the support of a new kind
Frédéric Bisson
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The musical work in cyberspace: some ontological and aesthetic implications
The article examines some of the consequences of the migration of musical works in cyberspace, particularly with regard to their ways of being and the ways in which we listen to them.
Alessandro Arbo
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Siren Songs and Echo’s Response
In contrast to phonographical recording, storage, and reproduction of the voice, most media theories, especially prominent media theories of the human voice, neglected the aspect of synthesizing human-like voices by non-human means.
Christoph Borbach
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Ancient Kyrgyz writing (from ancient times to the 10th century A.D.)
The article deals with the ancient Kyrgyz writings as pictography, logography, identification marks (en tamga) and phonography. The object of the research is the Yenisei written monuments: Minusinsk and Tuvanian.
Kulzhamal Dzhamankulova
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Noise over signal: Phonography culture as participatory [PDF]
While participatory culture has been of special interest to scholars for nearly three decades, much of the focus has centered on digitally networked contexts.
Luther, Jason W, Williams, Patrick
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Si può interpretare la musica elettroacustica?
Stephen Davies distinguishes two kinds of musical works: works for performance and works that are not for performance. He argues that electroacoustic music belongs to the latter kind.
Eric Maestri
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