جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
by G Douglas Barrett
In Experimenting the Human,
G Douglas Barrett argues that experimental music speaks to the
contemporary posthuman, a condition in which science and technology
decenter human agency amid the uneven temporality of postwar global
capitalism. Time moves forward for some during this period, while it
seems to stand still or even move backward for others. Some say we’re
already posthuman, while others endure the extended consequences of
never having been considered fully human in the first place.
Experimental music reflects on this state, Barrett contends, through its
interdisciplinary involvements in postwar science, technology, and art
movements.
Rather than pursuing the human's beyond, experimental
music addresses the social and technological conditions that support
such a pursuit. Barrett locates this tendency of experimentalism
throughout its historical entanglements with cybernetics, and in his
intimate analysis of Alvin Lucier’s neurofeedback music, Pamela Z’s
BodySynth performances, Nam June Paik’s musical robotics, Pauline
Oliveros’s experiments with radio astronomy, and work by Laetitia
Sonami, Yasunao Tone, and Jerry Hunt. Through a unique meeting of music
studies, media theory, and art history, Experimenting the Human provides fresh insights into what it means to be human.