Sonic writing : technologies of material, symbolic and signal inscriptions /: technologies of material, symbolic and signal inscriptions. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thor Magnusson.
• Authors: Magnusson, Thor
• Contents: Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On Objects, Humans, and Machines; The non-origins of music; Mnemotechnics and music; Three music technological epistemes; Unstable objects; Ergodynamics; Book structure; Part I Material Inscriptions; 1 Instrumentality; Musical organa; Instruments in myth and philosophy; Instruments in medieval thought; Instruments of modernity; Instrumental materialities; Conclusion; 2 New Instruments; Instruments and alien objects; Interfacing sound; The Karlax; The LinnStrument Resonating acoustic instrumentsDigital affordances; Instrument or controller?; Conclusion; 3 Epistemic Tools; Instruments for thinking; Theoretical instruments; Instrumental agency; Epistemic tools; Material affordances; Conclusion; 4 Digital Organology; Evolutionary organology; Musical organics; New instruments, new ideas, new instruments; Conclusion; Part II Symbolic Inscriptions; 5 Writing Music; On writing; On the possibility of writing sound; Symbols notating music; Guido of Arezzo; Mnemonics and notation; Conclusion; 6 Printing Music; The printing press; Musica poetica Music as (re)searchThe musical work; Conclusion; 7 New Languages; Descriptive and prescriptive notation; Notating for (human) machines; Open notations; Graphic scores; Multimedia notation; Rules and process; Improvisation and the aleatoric; The cost of freedom; Conclusion; 8 Machine Notation; Algorithmic music; Combinatorics and creativity; Compose a system and run it; Generative music; Musicology of code and systems; Modular systems; Conclusion; Part III Signal Inscriptions; 9 Inscribing Sound; Notating what?; Mechanical writing; Sonic pens; The phonograph; Crossing the epistemic gap Conclusion10 Recording; The seeds of an industry; Phonography as production method; Critical studies of the phonograph; Writing sound; Sound as compositional material; Real or synthetic sound?; Phonographic writing as the condition of jazz; Ontology of the recorded work; Conclusion; 11 Analysing; Interpreting signals; Objective notation with the Melograph; Analysis of music through visual means; The notational quality of the sonic spectrum; Instruments for seeing sound; Conclusion; 12 Machine Listening; What to listen for?; Machine listening; Cutting sound up into databases; Conclusion Part IV Digital Writing13 Transductions; Wherein lies knowledge?; Instruments as media and objects of resistance; Embodied musial gestures; Ergomimetics; Ergomimetic interfaces; Conclusion; 14 New Notations; Writing on fluid formats; A piece or an instrument?; Music as invention; Semiotics of notation for new instruments; Composing for digital instruments; New notations; Live coding; Characteristics of postlinear work; Conclusion; 15 Machine Writing; Transforming rules; Machine as a human extension; Generative music; A form without a format; Systematic musicology of systems
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 781; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Musical notation; Musical instruments; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Philosophy; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Musical instruments; Musical notation; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501313882; 1501313886
• Related ISBNs: 9781501313851; 1501313851; 9781501313868; 150131386X; 9781501313899; 1501313894
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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