The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33042
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- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315612911
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- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315612911
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Additional information
- Following the success of his monograph Living Electronic Music (2007), Emmerson was invited by Ashgate (now Routledge) to edit a research companion. The peer-reviewed proposal was approved in 2015, and contributions commissioned and assembled (with full editorial and review processes) over the succeeding three years.
The key research question is how to address a field that can no longer be defined simply – as it continues to extend its boundaries, forever reinventing its terminology, application and meaning. Rather than attempt an encyclopedia, Emmerson commissioned a series of representative ‘snapshots’ intended to show the extraordinary reach of the field as it has emerged in the 21st century. These were grouped into three sections.
I: ‘Global reach – local identities’
The breakdown of cultural boundaries both within and between cultural groups; the now global extent of the field while engaging local elements;
II: ‘Awareness, consciousness, participation’
Widening participation through technology and neuroscience - successes and problems; deepening awareness and engagement with the environment;
III: ‘Extending performance and interaction’
Extending performance with loudspeakers; internet music making and shared coding.
In addition to curating and editing:
Emmerson, S., ‘Introduction - music practice: reaching out with technology’, pp.1-17.
Emmerson, S. and Fields, K., ‘Where are we? Extended music practice on the internet’, pp.249-271.
The Introduction is a substantial and critical discussion of the evolution of the field, its changing terminology, genre boundaries and the assumptions that lie behind these. This draws on a lifetime of research and writing in this field. In the joint chapter Fields supplied a substantial archive of more than 10 years of internet performances which Emmerson discusses musically, suggesting options for composition and performance practice which exploit some of the characteristic idiosyncrasies of internet connectivity rather than see them as limitations. Previous writing on this subject has focussed on technical discussion.
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