acoustic studies düsseldorf
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Edited by:
Dirk Matejovski
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Tape fundamentally transformed musical aesthetics, practices of composition, and concepts of sound in the twentieth century. Cutting, sticking together, measuring, and lopping audio tapes made it possible to access a new kind of sound that was also reflected conceptually. Tape Matters traces the beginnings of this development, showing how this technology "helped to write" the compositions and discourses of sound theory in the 1950s and 1960s.
When fans become researchers, crossing boundaries is part of it. Citizen science makes it possible to change sides and perspectives, which can lead to productive exchanges of knowledge and experience in scholarship and society. This volume discusses the possibilities and limits of citizen science in media and cultural studies, and is the first to bring together the two disciplines of citizen science and fan research.
The architecture of a recording studio has a significant effect on the sound of a recording and on the medial practice itself. For this reason, technological apparatuses but also the spatial logic of production sites have cultural meanings. This book explicitly addresses the aesthetic and semantic relations between acoustic media and the spatial architectures of studio culture using a theoretical concept of power.
"Acoustic intelligence" designates a form of surveillance-listening in art and society. In this edited volume, it is the concept guiding the analysis of acoustic spying and surveillance scenarios in media. At the same time, Acoustic Intelligence draws attention to the agency of intelligent machines and algorithms. Its phenomena and fields of analysis constantly shift between the semantic poles of listening and obeying.
This volume presents contributions that consider music in film together with various manifestations of youth culture. The authors discuss the process of exchange that takes place between youth, music, and pop using examples of film productions that feature music. These multidisciplinary perspectives on the significance of moving pictures for pop, youth, and music cultures mirror current debates in pop discourse analysis.
Music videos have been shaped by the aesthetics of the audiovisual moving picture genres of the last 100 years. They go far beyond the illustrative and commercial functions of the music videos of the 1980s, taking up avant-garde and current practices of image configuration. This volume inquires into the potential of music videos to posit discourses, reinterpret them in pop culture, and bring about the hybridization of media and cultural formats.
The electronic act Kraftwerk has been one of the most influential and style-defining innovators in recent pop music. Their aesthetics, shaped by their reserved synthesizer sound and minimalistic texts, has been a point of reference for musicians and producers for decades and breaks conventional frameworks with conceptual approaches. This volume addresses the band’s music and reception history, which has been characterized by mythologization.
This study examines the influences that Romanticism had on the film music of the 2010s. It focuses on aesthetic and stylistic Romanticisms, such as concepts of myth and utopia, leitmotif-based composition techniques, and ideas of the artistic genius. Alongside film music, it also analyzes production processes. Moreover, it critically questions portrayals of postcolonial motifs and expands on the genre theory of film music.
