Faces, music, photographs
1May 7, 2014 by Elodie A. Roy
In 2006, photographer and music-lover William Ellis started taking pictures of artists with their favourite recordings. On his …
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Category Uncategorized | Tags: collectors, Photography, records, vinyl, William Ellis
Fans only – Note on one-copy albums
0April 9, 2014 by Elodie A. Roy
In the wake of Jean-Michel Jarre’s one-copy release of Musique Pour Supermarché in 1983 and the one-copy LPs released since …
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Category Research | Tags: aura, collector, consumption, scarcity, Wu-Tang-Clan
The politics of listening and the fantasy of total control
1April 8, 2014 by Richard Elliott
Collecting and archiving are processes that help connect the notions of ‘recording loss’ and ‘lost recordings’, both of which hinge …
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Category Research | Tags: agency, collecting, consumption, listening, materiality, sound recordings
Keeping Tracks: a one day symposium on music and archives in the digital age, British Library, 21st March 2014
0March 26, 2014 by Elodie A. Roy
In his short docu-fiction about the Bibliothèque Nationale Française, Alain Resnais emphasised the inescapable weight of the archive. He patiently …
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Category Conference Updates | Tags: archives, libraries, sound recordings
Phonography’s defining traits
0March 25, 2014 by Richard Elliott
In his influential book Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music, Mark Katz identifies seven traits of sound recording technology …
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Category Research | Tags: cracked media, phonography, sound recordings
Musical Materialities in the Digital Age
0March 5, 2014 by musmat
Musical Materialities in the Digital Age 27-28 June 2014, University of Sussex Keynote Speakers Michael Bull (Professor of Sound Studies, …
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Category Conference Updates | Tags: cfp, conference
