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Musical organics: a heterarchical approach to digital organology
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of new musical technologies is fraught with difficulties. The digital materials from which they are formed are of such diverse origins and nature, that they do not match traditional organological classifications. This article traces the history of musical instrument classifications relevant to the understanding of new instruments, and proposes an alternative approach to the centuries-old tree-structure of downwards divisions. The proposed musical organics is a multi-dimensional, heterarchical, and organic approach to the analysis and classification of both traditional and new musical instruments that suits the rhizomatic nature of their material design and technical origins. Outlines of a hypothetical organological informatics retrieval system are also presented.
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Sonic Writing: Technologies of Musical Expression, Notation and Encoding; G1769; AHRC-ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL; AH/N00194X/1
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Journal of New Music ResearchISSN
0929-8215Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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3Volume
46Page range
286-303Department affiliated with
- Music Publications
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2017-05-03First Open Access (FOA) Date
2017-10-06First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-05-03Usage metrics
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