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soundcultures



Soundcultures. About electronic and digital music

edited by Marcus S. Kleiner and Achim Szepanski

Suhrkamp (Publishing House - Germany) 2003

Is it possible to narrate music? Music, is it an narrative discourse? A
reflection about music, does it have to be musical? Does music refuse to
be written and to be put into experiments of discoursive order, a text
of its musicalisation and decomposition a-significant intenseness? Which
part have the technologies of the media in this context?

Digital and electronic music constitutes itself by difference. Its
a-centric structure is produced by unstable, passing events. It forms a
kind of language, a chain of signs without referring to a sense-centre.
It doesn't function as a carrier of messages and resists every
experiments of discoursive decoding. This opens the possibility to
interpret it in every form to compose texts by it.

Digital and electronic music is entered into the technic, it is
media-music. 

"Soundcultures" discusses central aspects of contemporary electronic and
digital music, created in the last years out of the verge of Techno, New
Music and Science of Arts. In the multitude of publications to the
subjects: New Media, Media-Technology and Media-Theory, the field of
music has nearly been left out completely. "Soundcultures" tries to
close this gap. 

Well known authors in the field of sociology, media-theory, musicology,
philosophy and science of arts try to give a general idea of electronic
and digital music and to establish a dialog with different actual
theories.

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