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Rethinking Collaboration in Networked Music*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

Nicolas Makelberge
Nicolas Makelberge*
Affiliation:
Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR), Portuguese Catholic University – School of the Arts, Rua Diogo Botelho 1327, 4169–005 Porto, Portugal
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Abstract

This paper argues that today's sampling culture, emerging out of pioneering efforts in electroacoustic music in the 1950s carries a similar ethos of autonomy found in many significant advances in music instrumentation throughout history. By looking at the evolution of musical instruments, the author hopes to address these continuous effort towards autonomy, which, if proves legitimate should be of great concern for networked music research that deals with all forms of music praxis of varying reciprocity and group dynamics. By further looking into what sets collaboration apart from cooperation and collective creation, and elaborating on the ‘social’ of music, this paper hopes to extend the discourse on current trends of accessing, shaping and sharing music in solitude, from something often seen as unfortunate and anti-social, to something less so.

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Organised Sound , Volume 17 , Issue 1: Networked Electroacoustic Music , 14 February 2012 , pp. 28 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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Footnotes

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I would like to acknowledge the assistance of DESIRE (Marie Curie Initial Training Network), CITAR, CIANT and Dr Alvaro Barbosa.

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