Hz #19
www.hz-journal.org
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WHAT, AM I HEARING LIGHT? LISTENING THROUGH JEAN-LUC NANCY
by MARTYN HUDSON
The work of Jean-Luc Nancy on listening helps us to rethink questions of
sonority and the listening body. It reworks the whole field of sound and
representation, and presents a novel way of questioning the relations of power
in terms of music. This article itself works through the significance of Nancy
to the current state of sound studies and the philosophy of music.
WHAT IS 'POST-DIGITAL'?
by FLORIAN CRAMER
In the context of recent revivals of non-electronic media in the arts and
popular culture, this text revisits the notion of 'post-digital,' a term
originally coined for electronic glitch music in the early 2000s. It
investigates some contemporary tendencies in creative practices; from
'post-digital' as antithesis of 'new media' to how the 'new media' culture has
transformed non-electronic media such as vinyl to zines.
CRITICAL GLITCHES AND GLITCH ART
by MICHAEL BETANCOURT
Technical failures (glitches) are often considered ruptures inherently
criticizing media art; however, contemporary aesthetics and theoretical
concerns with digital capitalism pose specific problems for this critique. This
analysis addresses the underlying problematics of 'glitch' revealed by its
theorization in active::passive conceptions of audience, the cul-de-sac posed
by Formalist conceptions of glitch, and the potential for a critical media
praxis based on rupture and violation.
MIXING IT: 12 REMIXES BY MICHAEL SZPAKOWSKI
by EDWARD PICOT
In 2011-12, the video artist and musician Michael Szpakowski entered a remix
competition every month, and compiled his remixes (some of them with
accompanying videos) on his website. Edward Picot argues that the "12 Remixes"
project provides a fascinating insight into the links between mashup culture
and modernist theory.
LANDSCAPES {SOUNDSCAPES: DRONESTRIKES ON SATURN
by LAURA PLANA GRACIA
Dronestikes on Saturn by raxil4 and his Nameless Is Legion uses sonifications
of the Saturn radio waves recorded near the poles of the planet via the Cassini
spacecraft. Lecturer and curator Laura Plana Gracia examines various aspects
and streams in the history of soundscape, related philosophies and
technological developments, which have served as a background for the media
ecology audio work.
HOW THE TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN OF FACEBOOK HOMOGENIZES IDENTITY AND LIMITS
PERSONAL REPRESENTATION
by BEN GROSSER
This article explores how the technological design of Facebook homogenizes
identity and limits personal representation. Using a software studies approach,
artist Ben Grosser looks at how that homogenization transforms individuals into
instruments of capital, how Facebook's use of lists and templates limits
self-description, and how Facebook's users resist the site's limitations.
MY LAWYER IS AN ARTIST: FREE CULTURE LICENSES AS ART MANIFESTO
by AYMERIC MANSOUX
"My Lawyer is an Artist" looks back at the nineties' free culture Pangea that
saw the first artistic appropriation of the free software movement with
projects such as GNUArt and the Free Art License. It argues that although many
different voices are muffled today under the globalist tone of free culture,
this early adoption was a conscious political choice belonging to a rich
lineage of proto-copyleft artistic practices. By adopting free culture licenses
artists have turned contracts into manifestos.
CRUFT: ART FROM DIGITAL LEFTOVERS
by ROBERT SPAHR
Robert Spahr's art practice reflects on our relationship to media technologies,
especially surveillance and mind control, and in the process contemplates what
a post-human art may look like. Organized under the umbrella concept of Cruft,
he takes apart, juxtaposes, recycles, and interrupts the relentless flow of
media to reveal a relationship in which we don't simply consume media but are
also consumed by it.
OUTLINE FOR A TALK ON BLANK THAT CAN'T BE GIVEN
by ALAN SONDHEIM
The article is a result of work carried out over the past several years by Alan
Sondheim, in which issues of edge phenomena in real and virtual spaces are
considered, along with notions of blankness and negation. This succint article
with the accompanying media "should clarify things."
ROLLING STONES GETS ME NO SATISFACTION
by KEVIN LOGAN
This text foregrounds repetition as part of an on-going exploration of the
performative nature of sound works, as mediated gestures that destabilise the
performed act. In particular, low-key and low-fi sequences of sonic-events,
re-constructed, re-purposed and 're-punked', bring into question the
authenticity of their first instantiation. Repetition is not just an act, but
an object, a thing.
ORDINARILY NOWHERE
by GX JUPITTER-LARSEN
By asking ridiculous questions one can, on occasion, inevitably stumble upon a
practical answer. This article acts as an audit of such analysis, one in which
GX admits to being somewhat of an agnogenic abecedarian.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC ARCHIVES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE SWEDISH PERFORMING ARTS
AGENCY
by PÄR JOHANSSON
Historically Fylkingen and Elektronmusikstudion EMS have been the most
important organisations for electroacoustic music in Sweden. This article
offers an outline of their partly common history as well as a description of
their archives recently donated to the Music and Theatre Library of Sweden at
the Swedish Performing Arts Agency. Also touched upon in this text are other
archives and literature of Swedish EAM available at the same institution.
A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FYLKINGEN'S JOURNALS
by SACHIKO HAYASHI
Written for the 80th anniversary of Fylkingen (the publisher of Hz), this text
maps, analyses, and gives a brief account of Fylkingen's journals through the
years. Treated here are: Fylkingens Bulletin and Fylkingen International
Bulletin (1966-1969, 1983), Hz (1992-1993), and online Hz (2000 onwards).
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Hz is published by Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has
through the years made major contributions to introducing yet-to-be-established
art forms in Sweden. For more information, please visit:
http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html
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