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Conference report: Music and Genre: New Directions @ McGill University
Posted on by Emily Payne
A report by Mimi Haddon on the conference, ‘Music and Genre: New Directions’, held at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, is now available on the Outputs section of the website.
Kyle Devine Appointed Associate Professor of Popular Music @ University of Oslo
Posted on by Kyle Devine
In June 2015, Kyle Devine will join the University of Oslo as Associate Professor of Popular Music. Kyle taught previously at the University of Oxford and City University London.
Andrew J. Eisenberg interviewed about his MusDig research for NYUAD blog
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Andrew J. Eisenberg has been interviewed about his MusDig research for The Conversation, a video series hosted by NYU Abu Dhabi. Hear Eisenberg discuss developments in Nairobi’s music industry, and his reflections on the Still Alive studio where he watched producer Timothy Boikwa record a song by local artist Profesa.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150906194446if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/sKQP2fQpQmY
Andrew J. Eisenberg Appointed Assistant Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi
Posted on by Emily Payne
Andrew J. Eisenberg has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Anthropology at Bard College in 2013-14, and at NYUAD in 2014-15.
Georgina Born gives series of lectures in New York
Posted on by Emily Payne
Georgina Born is making a ‘tour’ in late March and early April giving keynotes, lectures and workshops presenting the MusDig research in New York at Columbia University, New York University and the New School, and at Yale University.
Kyle Devine: new publications
Posted on by Kyle Devine
MusDig research associate Kyle Devine has published two new coedited collections: The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music (Routledge 2015), which includes a contribution by Georgina Born, and Living Stereo: Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound (Bloomsbury 2015).
Patrick Valiquet completes his Doctorate
Posted on by Emily Payne
In the autumn of last year Patrick Valiquet successfully defended his doctoral thesis, ‘The Digital is Everywhere': Negotiating the Aesthetics of Digital Mediation in Montreal’s Electroacoustic and Sound Art Scenes, in the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford. His thesis draws on ethnographic research he conducted as a MusDig researcher in 2011 and 2012. A series of chapters and articles are set to be published over the course of 2015 and 2016.
MusDig research featured in Wall Street Journal India
Posted on by Emily Payne
A story based on MusDig Research has been covered in WSJ India: How Cellphones Are Helping to Revive India’s Folk Music Scene.
Geoff Baker: new publications
Posted on by Emily Payne
Geoff Baker’s article, ‘“Digital indigestion”: Cumbia, Class and a Post-digital Ethos in Buenos Aires’ has been accepted for publication by Popular Music in 2015.
His book, El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth has recently been published by Oxford University Press (New York).
MusDig Research Associate @ AMS Milwaukee
Posted on by Kyle Devine
MusDig research associate Kyle Devine will be presenting on the “Hearing Ecologies” panel at this year’s American Musicological Society meeting. Kyle’s paper draws on his current research into the political ecology of recorded music.
Alex Boudreault-Fournier @ Acoustic Communication and Soundscape Design, UBC
Posted on by Emily Payne
On September 20 2014, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier presented the paper “The Sonic Awakening: Teaching the ‘Anthropology of Sound'” at the conference “Acoustic Communication and Soundscape Design” organized by Barry Truax and Hans-Joachim Braun at the University of British Columbia.
Patrick Valiquet, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh
Posted on by Emily Payne
This autumn Patrick Valiquet will be taking up a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Reid School of Music at the University of Edinburgh. His project ‘Marcelle Deschênes and Electroacoustic Aurality in Quebec, 1972-1997′ extends historical research begun during his doctoral studies as a MusDig associate, and is supported by a two-year grant from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture.
Georgina Born elected to the British Academy
Posted on by Emily Payne
We’re delighted to announce that MusDig PI Professor Georgina Born has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Born is one of 42 highly distinguished UK academics from 19 universities elected as Fellows this year, in recognition of their outstanding research. She will be a member of the Anthropology and Geography section and a cross-member of the History of Art and Music section.
Lord Stern, President of the British Academy, said: “I am delighted to welcome these fine researchers and scholars into our Fellowship. Our Fellows are elected from across the UK for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. Together they represent an unrivalled reserve of expertise and knowledge. They play a vital role in the work of the Academy, encouraging younger researchers, engaging in public discussion of the great issues and ideas of our and other times, contributing to policy reports and publications, and helping to select researchers and research projects for funding support.”
Alex Boudreault-Fournier co-directs new film in São Paulo
Posted on by Emily Payne
Alex Boudreault-Fournier has just finished co-directing an ethno-fiction with Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Rose Hikiji Satiko (Universidade de São Paulo) about funk music in the periphery of São Paulo. The film will be called Fabrik Funk.
Alex Boudreault-Fournier @ Universidade de São Paulo
Posted on by Emily Payne
Alex Boudreault-Fournier recently gave a workshop on Sound Composition at the Universidade de São Paulo.
MusDig @ NIME 2014
Posted on by Kyle Devine
We’re thrilled to have participated in a MusDig-related workshop at the 14th International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME). The workshop – ‘Gender, Education, Creativity in Digital Music and Sound Art’ – took place on 04 July, 10am–1pm, and was open to the public. To our knowledge, this was the first ever panel on gender at one of the main electronic / computer music conferences. The discussion was accordingly lively and engaging. We’d like to thank the workshop participants and all those in attendance for a really successful day.
Participants:
Freida Abtan, Goldsmiths, University of London
Georgina Born, University of Oxford
Kyle Devine, City University London
Holly Ingleton, City University London
Cathy Lane, CRiSAP, University of the Arts, London
Sally-Jane Norman, University of Sussex
John Richards, De Montfort University
Laetitia Sonami, sound artist
Mark Taylor, University of Manchester
Marie Thompson, Newcastle University
Simon Waters, Queen’s University Belfast
Kyle Devine @ Music, Materiality & Ownership
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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.
Andrew Eisenberg, Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi
Posted on by Emily Payne
We’re excited to announce that, beginning this autumn, Andrew Eisenberg will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Kyle Devine @ Musical Materialities in the Digital Age
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Kyle Devine is presenting on ‘The Material Intensity of Digital Music’ at Musical Materialities in the Digital Age, University of Sussex, 27–28 June.
In the presentation I argue against everyday discourses which suggest that music digitalised is music dematerialised. Instead, I highlight the obdurate ‘material intensity’ of digital music’s delivery infrastructure and accessory technologies. Drawing on work in material culture studies and the sociology of waste, my focus is on how the manufacture and delivery of digitally mediated music ‘consumes, despoils, and wastes natural resources’ (Maxwell and Miller 2012). Like earlier predictions about the paperless office, claims about the possibility of a digitally weightless musical culture assume an untenable lightness of being. Ending on a longer view of the history of the recording industry, I suggest that while the political economy of music may follow a path of abstraction, from the solidity of manufacturing to the airiness of rights agreements, the same cannot be said of the political ecology of music.
This work stems from Kyle’s current project, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music. It’s about the history of what recordings are made of, and about what happens to those recordings when they are disposed of. The larger project inscribes a history of recorded music in five materials: shellac, polyvinyl chloride, polyester, polycarbonate, and data — otherwise known as 78s, LPs, cassettes, CDs, and MP3s.
Andrew Eisenberg interviewed for Afropop Worldwide’s ‘Hip Deep: The Money Show’
Posted on by Andrew Eisenberg
“Every day, money changes hands in Ghanaian cedi, South African rand and Brazilian reals as music is created, traded, performed, purchased and pirated. In this episode we look at the business side of African music, through a series of vignettes from around the continent and diaspora that illuminate the deep connections between musical creation and the economies that sustain it. First, we tell the story of how cellphones are radically transforming Africa’s music industries. Then, we look at how business competition between street dance DJs birthed a sound system culture in Colombia. We look at African songs that made millions… for U.S. record companies. And, we take a trip to Jamaica to see what happens when artists decide to share.”
Georgina Born’s Bloch Lecture @ University of California, Berkeley
Posted on by Emily Payne
Georgina Born is giving her final Bloch Lecture, “Ontologies and Interdisciplinarities”, tomorrow at 4:30-6pm in the Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room, UCB Faculty of Music.
About the Lecture Series: “Music and the Digital: For a Global Anthropology of Contemporary Musics”
How are the creation, circulation, and consumption of music changing with its pervasive digital mediation? How are popular music producers adapting, and why are entrepreneurs in Nairobi more upbeat than those in Buenos Aires? Why has sound art emerged as a form in parallel with digital art musics? How can we make sense of live hacking practices and reversions to analogue music technologies? As yet we have only a nascent understanding of the profound transformations wrought by music’s digitisation. In these lectures, anthropologist of music Georgina Born presents fresh insights drawn from a global program of ethnographic studies of digital music cultures in Argentina, Canada, Cuba, India, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and beyond. She shows how this material highlights the need for an enriched interdisciplinarity among and beyond the music disciplines, and she reflects on the promise of a musical anthropology of the contemporary.
Kyle Devine @ University of Oslo
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Later this April, Kyle Devine will give a public lecture at the University of Oslo’s Department of Musicology. The lecture is based in his research into the political ecology of recorded music since 1900 — that is, the history of what recordings are made of, and what happens to those recordings when they are disposed of.
Georgina Born’s Bloch Lecture @ University of California, Berkeley
Posted on by Emily Payne
Georgina Born is giving the fourth of her Bloch Lecture Series, on “Times and Genres”, tomorrow at 4:30-6pm in the Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room, UCB Faculty of Music.
About the Lecture Series: “Music and the Digital: For a Global Anthropology of Contemporary Musics”
How are the creation, circulation, and consumption of music changing with its pervasive digital mediation? How are popular music producers adapting, and why are entrepreneurs in Nairobi more upbeat than those in Buenos Aires? Why has sound art emerged as a form in parallel with digital art musics? How can we make sense of live hacking practices and reversions to analogue music technologies? As yet we have only a nascent understanding of the profound transformations wrought by music’s digitisation. In these lectures, anthropologist of music Georgina Born presents fresh insights drawn from a global program of ethnographic studies of digital music cultures in Argentina, Canada, Cuba, India, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and beyond. She shows how this material highlights the need for an enriched interdisciplinarity among and beyond the music disciplines, and she reflects on the promise of a musical anthropology of the contemporary.
Christabel Stirling @ Queen’s University Belfast
Posted on by Christabel Stirling
MusDig affiliate research student Christabel Stirling will give a paper at the international symposium ‘Re-Composing the City’, to be held on 30th May 2014, hosted by the collaborative research group ‘Re-Composing the City: Sonic Art and Urban Architecture’ at Queen’s University Belfast. The paper will draw on her current fieldwork tracking site-specific sound installations in the London Boroughs of Camden and Tower Hamlets.
Kyle Devine @ Frith Conference
Posted on by Kyle Devine
In April, MusDig research associate Kyle Devine will present at Studying Music: An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith. Kyle’s paper is titled “Music and the Sociological Imagination: Pasts and Prospects”; it stems from archival and interview research he has been doing for The Sociology of Music Reader (Routledge, forthcoming), which he is editing with John Shepherd.
Blake Durham and Georgina Born @ Microsoft Research MusicTechFest
Posted on by Emily Payne
Blake Durham participated in the MusicTechFest held in Boston, Mass., on Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd March. Blake and Georgina Born then joined a number of key music technologists and designers, musicians and academics at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Mass., at a symposium organised by Nancy Baym and Jonathan Sterne on the subject of: ‘What is Music Tech For?’. Great contacts were made and a manifesto was produced to be widely circulated. Plans were also made for further interdisciplinary contacts between MusDig and this group, particularly with a view to creating close dialogues between those who design digital technologies for music and those from the social sciences and humanities who study their use.
Aditi Deo joins IISER, Pune
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From February, Aditi Deo joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India as one of their first faculty members in Humanities and Social Sciences. IISER Pune (one of five IISERs) is a unique initiative of the central government of India aimed to train undergraduate and postgraduate students for professions in the sciences. At IISER, Aditi will teach introductory courses that discuss diverse ways in which natural sciences/technologies interface with the concerns of humanities and social sciences.
Alex Boudreault-Fournier in São Paulo
Posted on by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Alex Boudreault-Fournier will travel to São Paulo during the months of June and July to work with two Brazilian visual anthropologists Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Dr. Rose Hikiji on a new film project about musicians living in the São Paulo’s periphery. She will be based at the Image and Sound Laboratory at the University of São Paulo. Stay tuned for new images and sounds from the Brazilian capital (and during the World Cup!).
Cinema Turbulent Film Festival
Posted on by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
The second Cinema Turbulent film festival will take place on April 16-17. 2014 at the University of Victoria on the beautiful West Coast of Canada.
Two visual anthropologists from Brazil Dr Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Dr. Rose Hikiji from the Sound and Image Laboratory at the University of Sao Paulo will present a workshop on Film and Photography in Brazil.
More than 20 films from around the world will be presented during the festival.
The festival is organized by Alex Boudreault-Fournier and Sonoptica, a group of students who think seriously about how the sonic and the visual dimensions can contribute to shaping our reflection on and understanding of a broad range of contemporary and historical phenomena. These dimensions include music, sound art, sound studies, and all aspects of visual representation, including, but not limited to, the visual and graphic arts.
It’s free of charge, all welcome!!!!!
For more information, please visit our tumblr page: http://sonoptica.tumblr.com/
Or like us on FB!
New IP consultancy in Nairobi names Andrew J. Eisenberg as advisor
Posted on by Andrew Eisenberg
As part of the on-going effort to share the benefits of the MusDig research with local interlocutors, Andrew Eisenberg will act as an occasional unpaid advisor for Intellectual Property Assets Consulting (IPAC), co-founded by lawyer, blogger, and MusDig interlocutor Victor Nzomo.
‘IPAC is a team of specialist consultants providing a broad range of Intellectual Property (IP) related professional services, including IP advice, IP training, IP registration, IP management and IP enforcement…’
Georgina Born’s Bloch Lecture @ University of California, Berkeley
Posted on by Emily Payne
Georgina Born is giving the third of her Bloch Lecture Series, on “Aesthetics and Materialities”, tomorrow 4:30-6pm in the Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room, UCB Faculty of Music.
About the Lecture Series: “Music and the Digital: For a Global Anthropology of Contemporary Musics”
How are the creation, circulation, and consumption of music changing with its pervasive digital mediation? How are popular music producers adapting, and why are entrepreneurs in Nairobi more upbeat than those in Buenos Aires? Why has sound art emerged as a form in parallel with digital art musics? How can we make sense of live hacking practices and reversions to analogue music technologies? As yet we have only a nascent understanding of the profound transformations wrought by music’s digitisation. In these lectures, anthropologist of music Georgina Born presents fresh insights drawn from a global program of ethnographic studies of digital music cultures in Argentina, Canada, Cuba, India, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and beyond. She shows how this material highlights the need for an enriched interdisciplinarity among and beyond the music disciplines, and she reflects on the promise of a musical anthropology of the contemporary.
Georgina Born @ SEAMUS
Posted on by Emily Payne
Georgina Born is giving the opening keynote for the SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the USA) annual conference at Wesleyan University. The Music Department’s George Jackson Memorial Lecture will be held on Wednesday March 26 at 7:00 pm in the CFA Hall, with Brian Kane (Yale University) as respondent.
Georgina Born @ Harvard University, Barwick Colloquium Series
Posted on by Emily Payne
On Tuesday, March 25 at 4:15 pm in the Davison Room, Music Library, Georgina Born is speaking as part of the Barwick Colloquium Series, on “For a relational musicology”.
Georgina Born’s Bloch Lecture Series @ University of California, Berkeley
Posted on by Emily Payne
As Visiting Bloch Professor in the Department of Music, UC Berkeley, Georgina Born is currently presenting a series of five public lectures on “Music and the Digital: For a Global Anthropology of Contemporary Musics”.
1. February 24 – Directions in Digital Musics
2. March 7 – Socialities and Institutions
3. March 21 – Aesthetics and Materialities
4. April 18 – Times and Genres
5. May 2 – Ontologies and Interdisciplinarities
How are the creation, circulation, and consumption of music changing with its pervasive digital mediation? How are popular music producers adapting, and why are entrepreneurs in Nairobi more upbeat than those in Buenos Aires? Why has sound art emerged as a form in parallel with digital art musics? How can we make sense of live hacking practices and reversions to analogue music technologies? As yet we have only a nascent understanding of the profound transformations wrought by music’s digitisation. In these lectures, anthropologist of music Georgina Born presents fresh insights drawn from a global program of ethnographic studies of digital music cultures in Argentina, Canada, Cuba, India, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and beyond. She shows how this material highlights the need for an enriched interdisciplinarity among and beyond the music disciplines, and she reflects on the promise of a musical anthropology of the contemporary.
The lectures will take place at 4:30-6pm in the Morrison Hall, 125 Morrison, Elkus Room, UCB Faculty of Music.
Patrick Valiquet @ SOAS
Posted on by Patrick Valiquet
MusDig research associate Patrick Valiquet will be speaking at the annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, held jointly this year with the Third International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music. The conference takes place from July 1st to 4th, 2014 and is hosted by the Department of Music of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The talk draws on his fieldwork for the MusDig research program and is titled: ‘Counterdisciplines in Electroacoustic Improvisation’.
Alex Boudreault-Fournier presented a keynote at Concordia University
Posted on by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier presented a keynote entitled “To Intersect, to Interact, to Interweave: Beyond the Fear of Experimenting in Anthropology” for the Graduate Student conference of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal.
Afro-futurism and Piu Piu
Posted on by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Alex Boudreault-Fournier presented a conference paper entitled “Le future, c’est hier et maintenant: Afrofuturisme et imagerie Piu Piu” (The Future, It’s Yesterday and Now: Afrofuturism and the Piu Piu Visual Representation” at the Université Laval in Québec city on feb 16, 2014.
Some media coverage on the Cuba event in Havana!
Posted on by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
A bailar y gozar con la música digital – On Cuba
http://www.oncubamagazine.com/actualidad/a-bailar-y-gozar-con-la-musica-...
Hey DJ, Let Technology Play! – Cuba contemporánea
http://www.cubacontemporanea.com/en/specials/hey-deejay-technology-play
MusDig conference in Cuba – Havana
Posted on by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
December 12-13, 2013
More than 50 people participated to the MusDig Cuban event on December 12-13 in Havana, Cuba. The event was called “Los impactos de las tecnologias digitales sobre la música en Cuba” and it took place in the beautiful Museum of the Bellas Artes in Old Havana.
Dj Joy – Havana December 13, 2013
Georgina Born @ University of California, Berkeley
Posted on by Kyle Devine
In the spring term 2014, from January to May, Georgina Born will be the Visiting Bloch Professor in the Department of Music, UC Berkeley, one of the leading music departments in the world. She will present the interim results of the MusDig research program in a series of five public Bloch lectures, as well as continuing to work on the analysis of the program’s findings throughout the term. Professor Born will also be meeting and working with colleagues from CNMAT at Berkeley: the Centre for New Music and Audio Technologies. Research student Joe Snape will also be visiting CNMAT and pursuing his ongoing MPhil research while there.
Georgina Born @ University of Birmingham, Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference: January 6-8th 2014
Posted on by Kyle Devine
On January 8th at 1.30pm Georgina Born will give the final keynote address for the RMA Research Students’ Conference in the Elgar Concert Hall. Her title is: ‘Directions in Digital Musics: On the entanglement of aesthetic, technological and social change’.
Georgina Born @ McGill University
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Georgina Born was the Visiting Schulich Professor in Music at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University between September and December 2013. She gave several research presentations on the MusDig program, as well as continuing with the analysis of her own research and that of the MusDig group, and the challenge of integrating the findings.
Georgina Born speaking @ Carleton University, Music and Culture Graduate Colloquium
Posted on by Kyle Devine
On Friday November 29 at 2:30 p.m., in Loeb Building room A 720, Georgina Born is giving the graduate colloquium on “Directions in Digital Musics: On the Entanglement of Technological, Social and Aesthetic Change”. The colloquium is organised by the Music and Culture Graduate Programme and is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Patrick Valiquet @ University of Oxford
Posted on by Patrick Valiquet
MusDig research associate Patrick Valiquet is speaking at the University of Oxford’s weekly Music Research Colloquium. The presentation takes place at the University of Oxford on Tuesday October 22nd at 17.15 in the Denis Arnold Hall at the Faculty of Music on St Aldate’s. The presentation draws on his fieldwork for the MusDig research program and is titled: ‘Sounding Digital: Technological and Aesthetic Change in Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art’.
Georgina Born @ Tracking the Creative Process in Music
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Georgina Born is chairing the session on ‘Distributed Creativity’ at the conference ‘Tracking the Creative Process in Music’, to be held at the Université de Montréal on Thursday October 10th from 11.15 to 13.00, in room A832. Papers will be given by Oxford University Music colleagues Eric Clarke and Mark Doffman, as well as David Gorton, Christopher Redgate and Hyacinthe Ravet.
Georgina Born @ Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Georgina Born is giving the keynote lecture for the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans. The lecture will be held at Concordia University on Thursday October 3rd at 17.30 in the York Amphitheatre, Engineering and Visual Arts Building, 1515 St Catherine St W. The lecture draws on the MusDig research program and is titled: ‘Directions in Digital Culture: Music as Exemplar’.
Georgina Born @ McGIll Philosophy Dept
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Georgina Born is giving a Departmental seminar to the McGill University Philosophy Department on Friday September 27th at 15.30, entitled: ‘Relational Ontologies and Social Forms in Digital Music’. The seminar takes place in room 927, 9th floor, the Leacock Building at McGill.
Georgina Born @ Time Forms conference
Posted on by Kyle Devine
In September 2013, Georgina Born will give a lecture at Time Forms: The Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience. This is the final McGill University-based conference for the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research project.
Andrew J Eisenberg, Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College
Posted on by Kyle Devine
We’re excited to announce that, beginning this autumn, Andrew Eisenberg will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Anthropology at Bard College, New York.
Georgina Born @ Music & Philosophy Conference
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Georgina Born is delivering a keynote lecture at the 3rd Annual RMA Music & Philosophy Conference. The event takes place 19-20 July 2013 at King’s College London.
MusDig @ Oslo Workshop
Posted on by Max Stein
Georgina Born, along with MusDig researchers Aditi Deo and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, recently met up with the Clouds and Concerts research team at the University of Oslo (11 June 2013). They discussed data on the consumption of digital music in the contexts of Norway, Cuba, Canada and India. It was a wonderful and productive set of exchanges on the methodologies adopted in the respective research projects, as well as data analysis strategies.
MusDig @ Oslo Workshop
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Georgina Born, along with MusDig researchers Aditi Deo and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, recently met up with the Clouds and Concerts research team at the University of Oslo (11 June 2013). They discussed data on the consumption of digital music in the contexts of Norway, Cuba, Canada and India. It was a wonderful and productive set of exchanges on the methodologies adopted in the respective research projects, as well as data analysis strategies.
Digital is Dead: (post)digital music festival at Modern Art Oxford
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Over three nights and an afternoon, Digital is Dead programmed nine artists and a critic to reflect on matters raised by the festival’s name. Headlined by Tim Hecker (Kranky), BJ Nilsen (Touch) and Oval (Thrill Jockey), the festival sought to explore the extent to which conceptual distinctions between digital and analogue technologies play a role in contemporary music making. From Oval’s ‘hyper-real’ soft synthesisers to the modular electronics of Brooklyn’s Mountains and BJ Nilsen’s field recordings, demarcating zeroes and ones from alternating currents appears an increasingly Sisyphean task. As glitch pioneer Markus Popp provocatively proposed in conversation with The Wire’s Anne Hilde Neset: ‘perhaps digital is not actually dead; maybe, in fact, it was never alive in the first place’.
Digital is Dead was organised by MusDig affiliate graduate students Joe Snape and Christabel Stirling.
Blake Durham @ MIT
Posted on by Kyle Devine
MusDig affiliate research student Blake Durham gave a paper at the Media in Transition International Conference (MiT8). Blake’s paper addressed ‘Free culture and the dynamics of permissibility in private music BitTorrent tracker’.
MusDig @ British Forum for Ethnomusicology
Posted on by Kyle Devine
This year’s BFE conference — Ethnomusicology in the Digital Age — was a must-do for the Music and Digitisation Research Group. Patrick Valiquet gave a paper on Montréal’s noise underground, Blake Durham spoke on Auto-Tune, and Georgina Born acted as a respondent. The conference was held jointly with ICTM-Ireland at Queen’s University Belfast.
Geoff Baker @ Severn Pop Network
Posted on by Kyle Devine
Geoff Baker presented at the Severn Pop Network inaugural conference: The Small Economies of the ‘New’ Music Industry. The conference was held at the University Bristol.
Geoff Baker at Latin American Music Symposium
Posted on by Kyle Devine
In February, Geoff Baker gave a keynote lecture at the First International Symposium on Latin American Music at VirginiaTech.
MusDig ‘American Tour’
Posted on by Kyle Devine
In November, MusDig was well represented at both the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco, and the joint New Orleans-based meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. A highlight for MusDig at the SEM/AMS/SMT conference was the Envisioning a ‘Relational Musicology’ panel, which was devoted to a discussion of Georgina Born’s work.
