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Musical Instruments in the 21st Century

Identities, Configurations, Practices

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Editors:
  1. Till Bovermann

    1. Institut für zeitbasierte Medien, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Alberto de Campo

    1. Institut für zeitbasierte Medien, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Hauke Egermann

    1. Department of Music, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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  4. Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo

    1. Audio Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  5. Stefan Weinzierl

    1. Audio Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Explores the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments

  • Contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century

  • Provides insights from science, humanities and the arts

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Till Bovermann, Alberto de Campo, Hauke Egermann, Sarah Hardjowirogo, Stefan Weinzierl
    Pages 1-5

  3. Think Know Reflect

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Instrumentality. On the Construction of Instrumental Identity

      • Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo
      Pages 9-24

    3. From Musical Instruments as Ontological Entities to Instrumental Quality: A Linguistic Exploration of Musical Instrumentality in the Digital Era

      • Caroline Cance
      Pages 25-43

    4. From Idiophone to Touchpad. The Technological Development to the Virtual Musical Instrument

      • Bernd Enders
      Pages 45-58

    5. Musical Instruments as Assemblage

      • Paul Théberge
      Pages 59-66

    6. Instrumentality as Distributed, Interpersonal, and Self-Agential: Aesthetic Implications of an Instrumental Assemblage and Its Fortuitous Voice

      • Deniz Peters
      Pages 67-78

    7. Interactivity of Digital Musical Instruments: Implications of Classifying Musical Instruments on Basic Music Research

      • Jin Hyun Kim, Uwe Seifert
      Pages 79-94

  5. Compose Play Perform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Interplay Between Composition, Instrument Design and Performance

      • M. A. J. Baalman
      Pages 225-241

    3. Instrumentality in Sonic Wild{er}ness

      • Antye Greie-Ripatti, Till Bovermann
      Pages 243-262
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About this book

By exploring the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments, this book contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century. Providing insights from science, humanities and the arts, authors from a wide range of disciplines discuss the following questions:

·         What are the conditions under which an object is recognized as a musical instrument?

·         What are the actions and procedures typically associated with musical instruments?

·         What kind of (mental and physical) knowledge do we access in order to recognize or use something as a musical instrument?

·         How is this knowledge being shaped by cultural conventions and temporal conditions?

·         How do algorithmic processes 'change the game' of musical performance, and as a result, how do they affect notions of instrumentality?

·         How do we address the question of instrumental identity within an instrument's design process?

·         What properties can be used to differentiate successful and unsuccessful instruments? Do these properties also contribute to the instrumentality of an object in general? What does success mean within an artistic, commercial, technological, or scientific context?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für zeitbasierte Medien, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Till Bovermann, Alberto de Campo

  • Department of Music, University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Hauke Egermann

  • Audio Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo, Stefan Weinzierl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Musical Instruments in the 21st Century

  • Book Subtitle: Identities, Configurations, Practices

  • Editors: Till Bovermann, Alberto de Campo, Hauke Egermann, Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo, Stefan Weinzierl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2951-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2950-9Published: 16 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9748-5Published: 05 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2951-6Published: 09 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 412

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Acoustics, Acoustics, Music, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Multimedia Information Systems

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