Sonic writing : technologies of material, symbolic and signal inscriptions / Thor Magnusson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magnusson, Thor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Musical notation.

Musical instruments.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--Philosophy.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music technologies. With a scope ranging from ancient Greek music theory, medieval notation, early modern scientific instrumentation to contemporary multimedia and artificial intelligence, it provides a theoretical grounding for further study and development of technologies of musical expression. The book draws a bespoke affinity and similarity between current musical practices and those from before the advent of notation and recording, stressing the importance of instrument design in the study of new music and projecting how new computational technologies, including machine learning, will transform our musical practices. Sonic Writing offers a richly illustrated study of contemporary musical media, where interactivity, artificial intelligence, and networked devices disclose new possibilities for musical expression. Thor Magnusson provides a conceptual framework for the creation and analysis of this new musical work, arguing that contemporary sonic writing becomes a new form of material and symbolic design--one that is bound to be ephemeral, a system of fluid objects where technologies are continually redesigned in a fast cycle of innovation"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

0 - Introduction

I - Material Inscriptions

1. Instrumentality

2. New Instruments

3. Epistemic Tools

4. Digital Organology

II - Symbolic Inscriptions

5. Writing Music

6. Printing Music

7. New Languages

8. Machine Notation

III - Signal Inscriptions

9. Inscribing Sound

10. Recording

11. Analysing

12. Machine Listening

IV - Digital Writing

13. Transductions

14. New Notations

15. Machine Writing

16. Music in Multimedia

V - Conclusion

17. A Future of Music Tech

18. Transformation of Tradition

19. New Education

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501313899

1501313894

9781501313875

1501313878

9781501313882

1501313886

OCLC:

1083671366