Dear all, (apologies for cross-posting) Following the symposium in Helsinki in 2019, a diverse group of expert scholars, artists, musicians, practitioners continued working together to open further inquiry into and dialogue about socio-cultural role of technology in current and emerging digital music practices. Now the content of this work is published as a special issue in Journal of New Music Research (Guest Editors: Koray Tahiroğlu and Thor Magnusson) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nnmr20/50/2?nav=tocList and this special issue is one of the outcomes of Academy Research Fellow project (no.316549) - http://dmi.aalto.fi You might have access to all the articles though your own institutions, but I would like to mention that 5 out of 9 articles are open access publications. In this special issue, Marc Leman investigates the concept of co-regulating timing in new Bayesian listener algorithm that could function as a perception module of an artificial musician capable of interacting with human musicians. Simon Waters's approach on rediscovering sociality regards instruments as necessarily assemblages rather than objects and he suggests that in historical terms the non-standard instrument can be seen to be typical of human/instrument entanglements. Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo debates how the examination of material media theory could contribute to understanding music-making as a part of digital networks. Koray Tahiroğlu explores our current relationship with music further through a particular AI powered autonomous musical instrument and argues that music-making still emerges as a social construct, a social activity even as a result of the mutual cooperation with human musicians and autonomous instruments. Don Ihde looks at selected examples of player-instrument relations beginning with a single string and moves to digital synthesisers, questioning how changes in musical technologies play roles in the social dimensions of musical instruments. Thor Magnusson looks into the question of how musical instruments establish themselves as part of culture and discusses music-technical transmission through using the conceptual cluster of ergodynamics, ergomimetics and ergophors. Claudia Molitor engages in a conversation with Thor Magnusson, on certain aspects of her work, discussing the idea of designing technology in the process of creating the social experience that is embodied by a new musical composition. Taina Riikonen looks into digital anthropology by conceptualising multi-sensory listening in large-scale city sonic environments and presents listening as an embodied, social and transforming phenomenon through the binaural recordings of Helsinki Metro tunnels. Hope you will enjoy reading the special issue, Best, Koray ------------------------------------- M.Koray Tahiroğlu Department of Media, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture http://sopi.aalto.fi/ http://dmi.aalto.fi/ https://sopi.aalto.fi/koraytahiroglu/ tel. +358 50 4088441 |