Exploring electronic music heritage through ethics and improvisation

• The work presented here is part of the research project /Historically informed design of sound synthesis: A multidisciplinary, structured approach to the digitisation and exploration of electronic music heritage/. <2> It engages with historically-informed sound synthesis through a collection of electronic instruments from the sixties and seventies collected by the Swedish Performing Arts Agency and archived by the Performing Arts Museum in Stockholm. The instruments in the collection are explored artistically in order to reveal both past practices as well as discover new ones.In this presentation I will talk about how my work in the project has had a big impact on the way I think about artistic practice. I will bring in the topic of improvisation as a method for understanding these systems, and ethics as a means to navigate the complex interrelations that are embedded. The theoretical foundation for the thinking here is taken from Michel Foucault's volume 3 of his /History of Sexuality/.In a wider scope of contemporary technologies, the rate at which the development in general is progressing can quickly turn objects sometimes less than a decade old incompatible with current systems. A hypothesis here is that by learning from early electronic instruments using a structured approach it may be possible to better understand the complexities of what may be seen as a kind of media archeology.

• Lecture recital

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Musik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Music (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Improvisation

musical heritage

ethics

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