20:00 - 21:00
English
Discussion
Everyone
Music Utopias

Short thesis

The session looks into what sound engineers, designers and artists are working on right now and which new applications for such sounds are in the works or theoretically conceivable.

Description

Can music and sounds be developed infinitely, or is everything at some point composed and tried out? If we follow John Cage and reserve the word “music” for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instrument, the contemporary “organizer of sound” will not only be faced with the entire field of sound but also with the entire field of time. Matthew Herbert on the other hand stands with his manifesto for a kind of artistic self-limitation, demanding for instance that the sampling of other people’s music is strictly forbidden and that the use of sounds that exist already is not allowed (No drum machines. No synthesizers. No presets). For our reality check, we want to discuss what sound engineers, designers and artists are working on right now. Which sounds actually sound new and why? And also - which new applications for such sounds are in the works or theoretically conceivable?

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