Monthly Archives: September 2018

Class meeting #5 – Collaborative music-making – Monday 10/1

Readings:

Topirceanu, A., G. Barina, and M. Udrescu. 2014. “MuSeNet: Collaboration in the Music Artists Industry.” In 2014 European Network Intelligence Conference, 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1109/ENIC.2014.10.
Glowinski, Donald, Maurizio Mancini, Roddy Cowie, Antonio Camurri, Carlo Chiorri, and Cian Doherty. 2013. “The Movements Made by Performers in a Skilled Quartet: A Distinctive Pattern, and the Function That It Serves.” Frontiers in Psychology 4 (November). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00841.
Rose, Stephen, Sandra Tuppen, and Loukia Drosopoulou. 2015. “Writing a Big Data History of Music.” Early Music 43 (4): 649–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cav071.

Response:

In a short (150-200) response to these three papers, think about how of the methodologies that are described could be used to study some context for collaborative musical creativity (e.g. group performance, online musical collaborations, mashups, classroom music making, music therapy) of your choosing. In your answer, assess the applicability of the models that are described in each paper to your chosen area.

Whiteboards:

Class meeting #4 – File-sharing and copyright – Monday 9/24

Readings:

Katz, p. 114-135 only

Katz, Mark. 2010. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Koebler, Jason. 2016. “Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism.” Motherboard (blog). March 23, 2016. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7eyg/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-pirates-zero-rating.
Nowak, Raphaël, and Andrew Whelan. 2014. “Editorial: On the 15-Year Anniversary of Napster - Digital Music as Boundary Object.” First Monday 19 (10). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5542.
paleotronic. 2018. “Confessions of a Disk Cracker: The Secrets of 4am.” Paleotronic Magazine (blog). June 15, 2018. https://paleotronic.com/2018/06/15/confessions-of-a-disk-cracker-the-secrets-of-4am/.

Response:

In class, we will discuss the proposition that “anti-piracy legislation harms musical creativity”. Prepare two or three points on both sides of the proposition that draw on the reading for support, and be ready to discuss them in class. You don’t have to post a reply this week but you will be expected in class to have your points to hand, so you might benefit from writing them down somewhere.