Programme

In this course, the impact of technologies and digital media on the worlds of contemporary music will be considered from different theoretical-methodological viewpoints. In the first phase, digital musical culture as concept and the dynamics of its formation will be focused. First of all reconsidering the transition from analogue to digital in the music both from a historical perspective, through a concise overview on the evolution and transformations of the music industry in the twentieth-century and in the first decades of the new millennium. Then, in a critical-analytical perspective, trying to understand and interpret these transformations in their repercussions and implications on the music industry as a system, but also on the relationship between music and communication and between music and society. Subsequently, other aspects related to the action of technologies and particularly of digital technologies on music will be examined, through the theme of mediatized performance.

Core Documentation

1. Franco Fabbri, La musica nell’era digitale, in XXI secolo. Comunicare e rappresentare, a cura di Tullio Gregory, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 625-634

2. Philip Auslander, Liveness. Performance in a Mediatized Culture, 3a ed., London, Routledge, 2023

3. Gianluigi Mattietti, Realtà aumentate e virtuali nella musica del XXI secolo, in Le musiche d’arte del XXI secolo in prospettiva storica, Atti della prima giornata di studio, 13 aprile 2021, a cura di Marco Bizzarini, Napoli, Federico II University Press, 2021, pp. 31-48

4. Emanuele Senici, Il video d’opera “dal vivo”: testualizzazione e “liveness” nell’era digitale, «Il Saggiatore musicale», 16/2, (2009), pp. 273-312

Non attending students will read the entire book:
Giacomo Albert, Post-music: l’ibridazione delle forme audiovisive nel XXI secolo tra performance e tecnologia, in La musica fra testo, performance e media. Forme e concetti dell’esperienza musicale, a cura di Alessandro Cecchi, Roma, NeoClassica, 2019, pp. 55-87

Attendance

(Non-mandatory) attendance in the classroom and remotely via Microsoft Teams

Type of evaluation

Oral exam with questions on the topics discussed within the lectures and on the bibliographical references.

Programme

In this course, the impact of technologies and digital media on the worlds of contemporary music will be considered from different theoretical-methodological viewpoints. In the first phase, digital musical culture as concept and the dynamics of its formation will be focused. First of all reconsidering the transition from analogue to digital in the music both from a historical perspective, through a concise overview on the evolution and transformations of the music industry in the twentieth-century and in the first decades of the new millennium. Then, in a critical-analytical perspective, trying to understand and interpret these transformations in their repercussions and implications on the music industry as a system, but also on the relationship between music and communication and between music and society. Subsequently, other aspects related to the action of technologies and particularly of digital technologies on music will be examined, through the theme of mediatized performance.

Core Documentation

1. Franco Fabbri, La musica nell’era digitale, in XXI secolo. Comunicare e rappresentare, a cura di Tullio Gregory, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 625-634

2. Philip Auslander, Liveness. Performance in a Mediatized Culture, 3a ed., London, Routledge, 2023

3. Gianluigi Mattietti, Realtà aumentate e virtuali nella musica del XXI secolo, in Le musiche d’arte del XXI secolo in prospettiva storica, Atti della prima giornata di studio, 13 aprile 2021, a cura di Marco Bizzarini, Napoli, Federico II University Press, 2021, pp. 31-48

4. Emanuele Senici, Il video d’opera “dal vivo”: testualizzazione e “liveness” nell’era digitale, «Il Saggiatore musicale», 16/2, (2009), pp. 273-312

Non attending students will read the entire book:
Giacomo Albert, Post-music: l’ibridazione delle forme audiovisive nel XXI secolo tra performance e tecnologia, in La musica fra testo, performance e media. Forme e concetti dell’esperienza musicale, a cura di Alessandro Cecchi, Roma, NeoClassica, 2019, pp. 55-87

Attendance

(Non-mandatory) attendance in the classroom and remotely via Microsoft Teams

Type of evaluation

Oral exam with questions on the topics discussed within the lectures and on the bibliographical references.