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Embodied/Encoded: A study of presence in digital music

Seaback, Robert

Norges musikkhøgskole 2024

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  • Título:
    Embodied/Encoded: A study of presence in digital music
  • Autor: Seaback, Robert
  • Assuntos: acousmatic music ; ambisonics ; Annen musikkvitenskap ; electroacoustic composition ; electroacoustic music ; electronic music ; embodied cognition ; extended reality ; Humaniora ; Musikkvitenskap ; presence ; virtual reality
  • Notas: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3131087
  • Descrição: Robert Seaback's artistic research PhD at the Norwegian Academy of Music, “Embodied/Encoded: A Study of Presence in Digital Music,” is published in the Research Catalogue (RC) [doi link will come]. The RC exposition is the written reflection component. The compositions and performances have been played in many concerts, amongst which was the PhD concert that took place at the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo 2023. Although video documentation and stereo versions of the pieces are linked in the research text, the original format for the multi-channel spatial concerts is higher-order ambisonics (HOA). These HOA files are available for download in the Brage archive, and can be decoded for playback over four or more loudspeakers. Notes on decoding strategies are given in the RC exposition in Appendix B. Keywords: Presence, acousmatic music, ambisonics, electroacoustic music, electronic music, electroacoustic composition, embodied cognition, virtual reality, extended reality Presence in Embodied/Encoded is concerned with the physical and embodied dimensions of musicking in relation to digital-informational representations of such phenomena. I explore presence through practices of recording, creative coding, audio production, and spatial electronic music composition. Of particular interest is the link between presence and the sensual/corporeal aspects of sound production and listening. Research in embodied music cognition and extended reality provide a foundation for this type of meaning formation. In the context of immersive electronic music, I suggest that physical presence – a sense of ‘being somewhere’—emerges not just from images/representations of place, but from peripheral aspects of the (embodied) acoustic experience such as spatial proximity and distance, diffuseness, resonance and reverberation, noise floor, etc. Consequently, musical meaning in “Embodied/Encoded” moves away from the symbolic dimension of electronic sounds toward meaning as an outcome of embodied interaction with the environment. The concept of presence can also apply to ‘mixed’ music, or combinations of acoustic and electronic sources, in which virtual presence is complicated by real bodies and spaces. Digital technology renders sound a flexible, malleable entity—a ‘flickering’ signifier to borrow from Hayles—capable of reconfiguring presence in creative ways. The dance between encoded and embodied dimensions inspires and informs this artistic research. Through a body of immersive music and multimedia documentation, I unpack connections between presence and its digital abstractions. draft
  • Editor: Norges musikkhøgskole
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2024
  • Idioma: Inglês
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