This theoretical course will explore how contemporary music technologies trace their genealogy back into millennia of musical practices. We will explore how notions of instrument building, musical notation and sound recording are incorporated in new musical technologies and study how new forms of production - such as machine learning, virtual reality and networked systems - shape future music. The course format will involve a short lecture followed by a discussion seminar. The course book will be Magnusson’s recently published Sonic Writing (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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