Sound, Senses, Musical Meaning, and Digital Performance: Epistemological Reframings
Doug Van Nort · Canadian Theatre Review · 2020
Drawing upon scholarship in sound studies, computer music, sensory ethnography, and musicology, this article argues that digital mediation has radically altered our understanding of the ‘musical work’ and the divisions of labour emerging from digital musical performance practice. It further argues that this opens up both an opportunity and a need, particularly in contexts involving artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning or interactive systems, for new creative approaches that place embodied practices of listening, improvisatory musical expression, and new approaches to performative sense-making at the core of musical research and creation in a manner that traverses composition, performance, and technological development.