Editors:
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)
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Front Matter
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Think Know Reflect
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Design Make Create
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Compose Play Perform
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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
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Institut für zeitbasierte Medien, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Till Bovermann, Alberto de Campo
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Department of Music, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Hauke Egermann
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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