Journal article
Séance and technology: intermundane communication as a methodology for contemporary music
- Abstract:
- This article examines compositions that stage communion with spirits via technological means. Through analysis of four works, it proposes ‘séancing’ as both a framework for interpreting performances of technologically focused contemporary music, and as a credible methodology for new music composition. In Francesca Fargion’s Louise, gently falling (2023), Vochlea’s Dubler 2 conjures a spectral vocalist that energises both rehearsal and performance. In Laurence Osborn’s Counterfeits (Siminică) (2023), Augmented Instruments Lab’s TouchKeys help stage a theatrical séance that blurs intermundane boundaries. Nwando Ebizie uses Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) to explore questions of sapience, pedagogy, and possession in I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) (2022). Zubin Kanga’s Metamemory (2023) makes use of PriSM SampleRNN to blur distinctions between real recorded performances and techno-hallucinogenic fictions.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/14794713.2024.2412507
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media More from this journal
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 464-483
- Publication date:
- 2024-10-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-09-30
- DOI:
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2040-0934
- ISSN:
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1479-4713
- Language:
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English
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2078532
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pubs:2078532
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2025-01-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Jonathan Packham
- Copyright date:
- 2024
- Rights statement:
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s)or with their consent.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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