Descrizione del progetto
Storia sociale e tecnologica dell’organo a manovella come strumento musicale proto-digitale
L’organo a manovella è spesso considerato obsoleto e simbolo del passato. Tuttavia, ha molto in comune con la musica digitale più recente. Il progetto NCDM, finanziato dall’UE, aspira a ridefinire l’organo a manovella e altri strumenti meccanici come forme proto-digitali. Per far ciò, il progetto studierà la storia sociale dell’organo come finestra sulla vita della musica popolare, povera e itinerante della città, oltre alla sua storia tecnologica come precursore della musica informatica moderna. Il lavoro fornirà una nuova prospettiva sul ruolo dell’organo nella storia della musica e una nuova visione dell’emergere della musica digitale.
Obiettivo
This interdisciplinary research project proposes a reframing of the crank organ and other mechanical instruments as proto-digital forms, offering a new perspective on the organ’s place in music history and opening up a new understanding of the emergence of digital music in terms of a continuity, rather than as something radically new causing a rupture with the analogue past. Due to be added to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Heritage, the crank organ is often viewed as a signifier for oldness, outdatedness, or the past; a closer look reveals strong commonalities with later digital music. Going beyond the technical level, I will confront these forms of music-making as part of a socioeconomic infrastructure utilising human and natural resources. The crank organ is the concrete shadow of digital music’s more obviously material past, and reintroducing into that history a hand-powered, wooden machine that operates on similar binary principles to electronically reproduced MIDI music can help re-anchor contemporary digital artefacts to their material roots. A massive increase in the accessibility of useable music composition tools with the advent of digital audio technology has correlated with a global division of labour which obscures the physical production of the machines. In terms of sustainability, the rematerializing of chains of production and consumption is an important project at this time. I will explore the social history of the organ as a window onto working-class, poor and itinerant urban musical life, alongside the technological history that sees the programming of these organs as a precursor to modern-day computer music, and demonstrate the intersections of these ideas. This fellowship will be carried out in Utrecht University under the supervision of Prof. Maaike Bleeker, with Dr. Floris Schuiling as a second supervisor, incorporating a 6-month secondment in the Speelklok Museum under the supervision of curator Marieke Lefeber-Morsman.
Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
3584 CS Utrecht
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