Kyle Devine @ Music, Materiality & Ownership

Kyle Devine has been invited to participate in a roundtable on "Collecting, Music and Thingness" at On Collecting: Music, Materiality and Ownership (National Museum of Scotland / University of Edinburgh, July). His talk will draw on a new research project, "Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music," which is about the history of what recordings are made of, and what happens to those recordings when they are disposed of. The project inscribes a history of recorded sound in five materialities: shellac, polyvinyl chloride, polyester, polycarbonate and data - otherwise known as 78s, LPs, cassettes, CDs and MP3s.