Preface
SuperConductors is a study of the liberatory political possibilities of interactive music. There are three main divisions. Division 0 concerns analytic aspects of the project. The largest division, Division 1, consists of a series of pieces composed that encourage collaborative music making in group settings. Finally, Division 2 consists of a discussion of and some example compositions of “sound toys”, interactive electronic music piece that can be accessed through a web browser.
Overall, the project includes some 14 musical compositions, with more than six hours of video footage documenting various performances.
Some highlights include:
- Guidelines for a new democratic music (Chapter 0.3)—a brief manifesto.
- Video overviews of the pieces of Division 1 (Chapter 1.a).
- “Playing with sound toys” (Chapter 2.1)—an article examining sound toys as a genre and the structural implications of their underlying technologies.
- Sound toys of my own composition (Chapters 2.2-2.6).
A PDF compilation of the text of this website (formatted as a dissertation document) can be downloaded here.
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