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[Nettime-bold] E-FLYER FOR NET.MUSIC CYBERSALON & SYMPOSIUM - Wednesday 11thApril 2001 |
NET.MUSIC CYBERSALON & SYMPOSIUM <please forward and circulate> Wednesday 11th April 2001 The ICA, The Mall, London SW1 Sponsored by the ESRC Immateriality Seminar Series Schedule 1.00pm-2.00pm Registration (food and drinks are available at the ICA). 2.00pm-3.30pm Symposium session 1: the new aesthetics of interactive music. 3.30pm-4.00pm Break (food and drinks are available at the ICA). 4.00pm-5.30pm Symposium session 2: the new political economy of interactive music. 7.00pm-8.30pm Cybersalon discussion: interactive music as prophecy of the future. 8.30pm onwards Party and exhibitions. Participants We have so far had expressions of interest from: Richard Barbrook (HRC, Westminster) Ray Holiday (Wildlife Records) David Laing (Westminster) Matt Black (Coldcut, Ninja Tunes) Andy Cameron (HRC, Westminster; Romandson) Paul Taylor (Salford) Tim Jordan (OU) Kwela Hermanns (Westminster) Warwick Metcalfe (Ericsson) Lewis Sykes (CID, Cybersalon) Steve Goodman (Hyperdub) Iris Garrelfs (Sprawl) Benoit Faucon (Les Echos) Pat Kane (Play Ethic) Charlie Gere (Birbeck) Ian D (Salford) Lee Marshall (Worcester) Eva Pascoe (Zoom) Outline of Event In his seminal text 'Noise', Jacques Attali celebrates the prophetic power of music. What is pioneered first within music-making is later adopted as the political economy for the whole of society. For instance, the constant turnover of hit records in the 1920s prefigured the mass consumerism of late-twentieth century Fordism. According to Attali, each epoch of music-making creates its own specific social, technological and aesthetic forms. For instance, twentieth century music developed some apparently unbreakable paradigms: stars, fans, record companies, copyright laws, pieces of plastic, top 40 singles and experimental albums. Yet, at the beginning of a new century, these fixed Fordist forms are being superseded. What began with a few skilled DJs mixing vinyl now involves almost everybody with access to a computer and the Net. This new situation won't just create new social, technological and aesthetic paradigms for music-making. As in the past, music is pioneering a new political economy for the whole of society. Napsterisation is a prophecy of the peer-to-peer future. This cybersalon and symposium will examine the impact of this transformation within music-making - and its consequences for the rest of society. Since copyright laws and technological fixes can only slow down this process, the event will concentrate on analysing the emerging social, technological and aesthetic paradigms. Musicians, fans, academics and policy-makers will be invited to give their views about the new situation. The event will begin with a two-session symposium in the afternoon. Each session will be structured around a series of short interventions followed by periods of discussion. In the evening cybersalon, the chairs of each session will summarise these findings and talk about the wider social consequences of the new forms of music-making. The first session will look at the new aesthetics of interactive music. This could include DJ culture, mixing, sampling, digital recording, Napster, MP3, music toys, on-line jamming and the latest technological developments. This session will discuss how far new methods of production and distribution are creating new aesthetics. What will be the sounds of the age of composition predicted by Attali? The second session will examine what happens once the existing legal and economic structures of music industry are no longer viable. The spread of new music technologies reflects the emergence of new methods of making music. However, when peer-to-peer computing becomes ubiquitous, how do musicians get paid for their work? How do people receive acknowledgement for their ideas? Can the copyright laws be updated for the new situation? Can music exist as both commodity and gift? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Communications and Creative Industries University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP <www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk> +44 (0)20 7911 5000 x 4590 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "While there is irony, we are still living in the prehistoric age. And we are not out of it yet..." - Henri Lefebvre ------------------------------------------------------------------- The HRC is involved in running regular cybersalons at the ICA in London. If you would like to be informed about forthcoming events, you can subscribe to a listserver on our website: <www.cybersalon.org>. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold