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The potential for critical technical practice in the creation of music

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The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and public spheres. Internet pioneer Philip Agre observed a discourse deficit in artificial intelligence research and proposed a critical technical practice, a single disciplinary field with “one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique. … A critical technical practice rethinks its own premises, re-evaluates its own methods, and reconsiders its own concepts as a routine part of its daily work.” This volume considers the potential for critical technical practice in the evolving situation of composition across a wide range of current practices. In seeking to tell more honest, useful stories of composition, it hopes to contribute to a new discourse around the creation of music.

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The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and public spheres. Internet pioneer Philip Agre observed a discourse deficit in artificial intelligence research and proposed a critical technical practice, a single disciplinary field with “one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique. … A critical technical practice rethinks its own premises, re-evaluates its own methods, and reconsiders its own concepts as a routine part of its daily work.” This volume considers the potential for critical technical practice in the evolving situation of composition across a wide range of current practices. In seeking to tell more honest, useful stories of composition, it hopes to contribute to a new discourse around the creation of music.

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Jonathan Impett is director of research at the Orpheus Institute and associate professor at Middlesex University London.

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Introduction: Music-Making and Storytelling Jonathan Impett Too Cool to Boogie: Craft, Culture, and Critique in Computing Alan F. Blackwell Illusions of Form David Rosenboom What to Ware? A Guide to Today’s Technological Wardrobe Nicolas Collins Toward a Critical Musical Practice Ann Warde The Composer’s Domain: Method and Material Nicholas Brown Dissociation and Interference in Composers’ Stories about Music: The Renewal of Musical Discourse Jonathan Impett Plates The Impossibility of Material Foundations Scott McLaughlin Thinking Liveness in Performance with Live Electronics: The Need for an Eco-systemic Notion of Agency Agostino Di Scipio Experiment and Experience: Compositional Practice as Critique Lula Romero Designing the Threnoscope or, How I Wrote One of My Pieces Thor Magnusson A Few Reflections about Compositional Practice through a Personal Narrative Daniela Fantechi Temporal Poetics as a Critical Technical Practice Karim Haddad Collaborative Creation in Electroacoustic Music: Practices and Self-Awareness in the Work of Musical Assistants Marino Zuccheri, Alvise Vidolin, and Carl Faia Laura Zattra Parlour Sounds: A Critical Compositional Process towards a Cyberfeminist Theory of Music Technology Patricia Alessandrini and Julie Zhu Changing the Vocabulary of Creative Research: The Role of Networks, Risk, and Accountability in Transcending Technical Rationality Ambrose Field Designing Audience–Work Relationships Marko Ciciliani Online Materials Notes on Contributors Index

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