Musical works, recordings and their digitizations

new philosophical types

Författare

  • Adam Stanović

Nyckelord:

Musical works, recordings, digitisations, philosophy, types, tokens

Abstract

Over the past hundred years, philosophers of music have debated the nature of, and relations that hold between, musical works and their performances. The gradual proliferation of recording and reproduction technologies over the same period further complicated such debates, encouraging some contemporary philosophers to consider similar relations between musical works and their recordings. In recent years, profound changes in the nature of such technologies have resulted in a new phenomenon, in which recordings of the past have been transferred from their original medium into the digital domain. Responding to this phenomenon, this article assesses the relations that hold between musical works, recordings and their digitisations. It starts by surveying existing theories that relate works and performances, paying particular attention to the realist notion of types and tokens. It goes on to consider three possibilities in which this notion might be employed and adapted in order to account for existence of recordings and their digitisations. The final of these three possibilities, which is viewed as the most plausible, does not merely offer a revisionist account of ongoing philosophical debates. Rather, it argues for a radical expansion of our understanding of musical works, and addresses the complex network of relations that they enter into with regard to recordings and digitisations.

Författarbiografi

Adam Stanović

Adam Stanović studied music technology and production at the University of Leeds, graduating with a 1st class degree, with honours, and an award for outstanding achievement. He went to complete a Ph.D. at City University, University of London, specialising in electroacoustic composition. His interest in technologically-mediated music-making splits along both practical and theoretical lines. In practical terms, he composes and performs new musical works, for which he has been international performed, published and prized. In theoretical terms, he has written extensively on the presentation and performance of music that involves technologies, and he is particularly interested in the various ontological and phenomenological paradoxes that recordings and digitisations seem to produce. Adam Stanović has taught at a number of institutions, and is Senior Lecturer at The University of Sheffield, where he directs the MA in Sonic Arts and the MA in Composition. a.j.stanovic@sheffield.ac.uk

Downloads

Publicerad

2018-03-23

Referera så här

Stanović, A. (2018). Musical works, recordings and their digitizations: new philosophical types. Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning Swedish Journal of Music Research, 99, 125–144. Hämtad från https://publicera.kb.se/stm-sjm/article/view/33616

Nummer

Sektion

Artiklar