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comment19.04.2021

Sublime ghosts and capricious categories

Macon Holt. © Marcela Lucatelli

To reach its potential music criticism needs to go beyond opinion. In his response to Seismograf’s survey on the state of Danish criticism, Macon Holt suggests the critic must grapple with the ethics and politics of the music.

PEER audio paper06.04.2021

The generation of a [multi’vocal] voice

Synthetic voice creation as the promotion of diversity.

By Multi’vocal Collective
PEER audio paper06.04.2021

Soundscapes as archives

Postcolonial reflections through soundwalk production.

By Jacek Smolicki & Candace Campo
PEER audio paper06.04.2021

Towards an ethics of listening

Editing and listening to field recordings as methods in postcolonial history writing.

By Carla J. Maier

PEER audio paper06.04.2021

History as composition

Colonial (dis-)appearances through reconstructed sites and sound

By Lene Asp & Mikkel Meyer

PEER audio paper06.04.2021

A fundamental mode of being in the world

Collaborative improvisation as a creative point of departure for studio production.

By Ilya Ziblat
PEER audio paper06.04.2021

Play always as if in the presence of a master

Critical examination of piano music through a psychological understanding of the act of performing.

By Kent Olofsson & Francisca Skoogh
PEER article06.04.2021

Seismograms of a musical work

An investigation of pianists’ independence from the score by comparing their tempo through graphs.

By Alisa Yuko Bernhard

PEER audio paper06.04.2021

Lost in interpretation

Re-mixing the master-apprentice relation in the music conservatoire

By Ulf Friberg, Carl Holmgren & Stefan Östersjö

PEER audio paper06.04.2021

Fleshy listening and multi-entity performance

Artistic environmental interaction and the notions of ‘fleshy listening’ and ‘multi-entity performance’.

By Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
PEER article06.04.2021

A chip off the old Block?

Historically-informed recording research exploring the work of the amateur recording pioneer Julius Block.

By Inja Stanović & Adam Stanović
PEER audio paper06.04.2021

Stewardship to obsolescence and preservation

On obsolescence, preservation, acoustic signatures and functions in the now closed Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin.

By Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer