Program
10:15 - 10:35 Bjørnar gives a brief presentation of project
10:35: Comments by, and discussion with Tellef Kvifte
Plenary discussion
Summary
This research investigates the relationship between contemporary digital interfaces, on the one hand, and theories and practices of contemporary music production, on the other. The vast proliferation of music that uses other recorded music or sound for its basic building block today illustrates how the possibility of sound reproduction reorients the practices of sound production. Drawing on perspectives and techniques from media theory, design, and music analysis, I will explore past and present uses of technical procedures such as sampling, editing, sequencing, and mixing, and ask how their function were constructed as such. In doing so, I highlight the ways in which software and digital instrument designs reflect and constitute broader trends in how recorded sound is conceptualized today: as discrete segments of repurposable sonic and musical "material,” represented and interacted with on screens and other interfaces.