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Music in New Media
FEKT-BPC-HNMAcad. year: 2021/2022
Music and new media - a marriage of convenience? Technological compliance of music - music of machines. Digitality of music and music encoding (from Neum to MP3, possibilities of visual representation). Modularity of music (music as a kit, the impact of mobile technologies). Music as a hypertext (redefinition of terms author - artist - listener). Interactivity of music - changes in the interface (J. Cage, G. Levin, D. Long, T. Dvorak, et al..). Multimediality (music in the context of other media). Music and space - music (in) space / space in music. Aesthetics of music in new media (functional × absolute, authentic × eclectic, high × low). Works of art in the age of digital reproducibility. Mobility of music - metamorphosis of memory. Materialization of sound - music as a physical object.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- describe the technological conditionality of music, its digitality and modularity,
- define the concepts of interactivity and multimediality,
- discuss issues such as hypertext, music and space, etc.,
- express basic problems of aesthetics in music in new media,
- describe musical works of art in the age of digital reproducibility.
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- Lectures provide the explanation of basic principles, subject methodology, examples of problems and their solutions.
Participation at lectures is recommended.
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Course curriculum
2. Music as a hypertext (redefinition of the author - artist - student). Interactivity of music - changes in the interface (J. Cage, G. Levin, D. Long, T. Dvorak, et al.). Aesthetics of music in new media (functional × absolute, authentic × eclectic, high × low).
3. Multimediality (music in the context of other media). Music and space - music (in) space / space in music.
4. Mobility of music - metamorphosis of memory. Music as a media of isolation. Videocliping of the natural light.
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Basic literature
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Otázka techniky. In Věda, technika a zamyšlení. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2004. (CS)
Manovich, L. The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0262632553 (EN)
Sexton, J. Music, sound and multimedia:from the live to the virtual. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0748625345 (EN)
XENAKIS, Iannis. Poznámky o "elektronickém gestu". In Manifesty pohyblivého obrazu: barevná hudba. Vydání první. Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz o.s., 2010. s. 87-92, 6 s. Edice PAF. ISBN 978-80-904515-4-4. (CS)
Recommended reading
Jordan, K., Packer, R. Multimedia: from Wagner to virtual reality. New York : W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 978-0393323757 (EN)
Miller, P.D. Sound unbound: sampling digital music and culture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2008. ISBN 978-0262633635 (EN)
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