Sonic Writing - Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions Magnusson Thor University of Sussex UKPaperback
Sonic Writing - Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions Magnusson Thor University of Sussex UKPaperback Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their…
Specifikacia Sonic Writing - Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions Magnusson Thor University of Sussex UKPaperback
Sonic Writing - Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions Magnusson Thor University of Sussex UKPaperback
Sonic Writing explores how contemporary music technologies trace their ancestry to previous forms of instruments and media. With a scope ranging from ancient Greek music theory, medieval notation, early modern scientific instrumentation to contemporary multimedia and artificial intelligence, it provides a theoretical grounding for further study and development of technologies of musical expression. Studying the domains of instrument design, musical notation, and sound recording under the rubrics of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions of sound, the book describes how these historical techniques of sonic writing are implemented in new digital music technologies.
The book draws a bespoke affinity and similarity between current musical practices and those from before the advent of notation and recording, stressing the importance of instrument design in the study of new