Hz #9

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Hz #9 presents:

[Articles]

THE COMPOSITION-INSTRUMENT: MUSICAL EMERGENCE AND INTERACTION
by Nobert Herber
Composer and sound artist Nobert Herber explores the question "What
kinds of compositional technique can be used to create a music" in the
field of computer games and interactive digital media where the line
between "composition" and "instrument" is increasingly blurred.

LeWITT'S IDEAL CHILDREN
by Domenico Quaranta
"Software art is conceptual art's acknowledged son" is the hypothesis
around which art critic and curator Domenico Quaranta builds his
anyalisis on genealogy of software art: "Is the history of conceptual
art relevant to the idea of software as art?"

DISSONANCE, SEX AND NOISE: (RE)BUILDING (HI)STORIES OF ELECTROACOUSTIC
MUSIC
by Miguel Alvarez Fernandez
Composer, musicologist and curator Miguel Alvarez Fernandez
deconstructs the reading of history of electroacoustic music through
the concepts of dissonance and noise.

BEHIND TECHNOLOGY: SAMPLING, COPYLEFT, WIKIPEDIA AND TRANSFORMATION OF
AUTHORSHIP AND CULTURE IN DIGITAL MEDIA
by Sachiko Hayashi
With sampling as starting point, artist Sachiko Hayashi relocates
several issues relevant to the culture of digital media.