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
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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
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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
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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
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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