A change of music appreciation style from “listening to high fidelity (Hi-Fi) sounds” to “listening to preferred sounds” has emerged due to evolution of digital audio processing technology for the past years. Previously, many people enjoyed passive music appreciation: e.g., they buy CD and phonograph recordings or download mp3 audio files, set the disks or files to various media players, and hi...

The reasons for study of radio broadcasting, i.e. »eight art«, are numerous: the way the youngest artistic discipline is conceived, the directness of its communication, as well as discrepancy that could be observed in the way it's poetics could be perceived and circle of questions concerning the ways by which the sound sign is transformed into state of art. Trying to answer the question what ra...

“Joel Chadabe is the only composer I know of who seriously involved with automatic electronic music,” wrote Tom Johnson back in 1972 Village Voice [1]. Of course, there had been many composers explored uncharted territories musical composition coming out machines. Their work well documented, and they have quite influential: Lejaren Hiller, famous for his string quartet four movements, Illiac Su...

The authors discuss their methodologies for creating and relistening to recordings in collaboration with Indigenous People Peru Venezuela contextualize them within the discourse about overcoming power structures that shape divides between Global North South, both urban rural trajectories, Western knowledges. When it comes giving back or sharing sound recordings, we suggest term resocialization ...

Recent advances in compression technology, combined with lower cost of storage and bandwidth, have made digital distribution of rich content including music not only technically feasible but also popular with a broad audience. However, limited progress has been made in the way this content is enjoyed by end users. In this paper, we focus on the problem of playing music in a shared space – e.g. ...

The XX century is full of technological inventions that made the very idea of a listening device possible, from the early gramophones to the latest portable mini disk players. What evolutions can we predict for the listening devices of the future, and how these evolutions will change the way we access and listen to music ? In this chapter, we suggest that listening devices can be greatly enhanc...

El Último Grito is an avant-garde indie electronic neoflamenco band based out of Paris. I shall consider the rapid evolution of indie economics due to recent technological innovations which have effectively removed the barriers to entry for aspiring indie musicians and critics alike. I argue that the invention of the internet has induced rampant inflationary pressure on indie cultural capital, ...

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices leaders can initiate to extend, strengthen, or transform ‘‘ordinary capabilities’’ (Winter, 2003) into enhanced improvisational compe...

Against the background of humanities writing about animal agency, this article examines primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa’s work with his ‘research partner’, the chimpanzee Ai, and her conspecifics at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and in an outdoor laboratory in Guinea from 1976 to 2016. This latest chapter in the history of Japanese primatology describes an attempt at synthesiz...

S Music and the Moving Image Conference May 27th 29th, 2016 1. Loewe Friday, May 27, 2016, 9:30AM – 11:00AM MUSIC EDITING: PROCESS TO PRACTICE—BRIDGING THE VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES IN FILMMAKING AND STORY-TELLING Nancy Allen, Film Music Editor While the technical aspects of music editing and film-making continue to evolve, the fundamental nature of story-telling remains the same. Ideally, the role ...