A Finnish turn: Digital and synthesiser musical instruments. Issue 2 (15th March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ihde, Don
• Is Part Of: Journal of new music research. Volume 50:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 165
• Page End: 174
• Publication Date: 2021-03-15
• Subjects: Postphenomonology -- synthesisers -- digital musical instruments -- non-human music -- animal musics; Music -- Periodicals; Musicology -- Periodicals; 780.72
• DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2021.1906709
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0929-8215

Abstract

Abstract : This paper will follow a musically experimental trajectory from non-mediated musical sound through many centuries of musical innovation from the simplest forms of resonation to today's synthesised musics in electronic – digital and synthesiser musics – with side looks at how changes in musical technologies play roles in the player-instrument and listener-music relations. I shall then look briefly at the modern, electric amplification of 'electric' instruments and much 'louder' musics with their equally radical changes in audience-performance situations. Finally, then, I will turn to electronic variants, which yet again drastically change the musical gestalt of player-instrument and listener-music relations.