Networked Music & Soundart Timeline (NMSAT): A Panoramic View of Practices and Techniques Related to Sound Transmission and Distance Listening
Jérôme Joy, Peter Sinclair · Contemporary Music Review · 2009
In 2008, Jérôme Joy initiated the ‘Networked Music & SoundArt Timeline’ (NMSAT)—a monitor on the history of networked music and sound. The Timeline is maintained by the NMSAT Development Committee, consisting primarily of researchers and artists from partner institutions. The team is complemented by a pool of authors and editors contributing to Locus Sonus's projects (such as, for instance, members of WLP – World Listening Project) and individuals who are part of other collaborative projects. The Committee has two major objectives: to amend and expand the existing database comprised currently of more than 2,000 entries and approximately 550 reference articles (NMSAT v.1.090319, March 2009); and to support the online technical and editorial development of the project. This article describes the current state of the timeline and the way in which it has been structured, as well as its evolution towards an open resource database accessible through a variety of specialized interfaces. NMSAT is part of the Locus Sonus research program and provides an essential historical backbone to practice-based artistic research and the exploration of developing technologies.