on Exomusicology 195 by Adrian Neubauer published on 2019-12-19T20:24:29Z electronic composition with melodic range spectrogram inspired by William Sethares exomusicology theoretical developments: "Though musicology is defined as "the historical and scientific study of music," the term is typically applied only to the study of music from the European classical tradition. "Ethnomusicology" is used to describe the study of nonwestern musical traditions and to the comparative study of different musical cultures. The more general term exomusicology (from the greek prefix exo, meaning 'external to' or 'outside of') is more appropriate to the study of nonhuman musical traditions, much as exobiology refers to the study of non-Earth life forms, and exolinguistics to the study of alien languages". "Exomusicology the quest for the music of alien cultures first contact with nonharmonic musical worlds." sources: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/exo.html See also: William R. Macauley Journal of sonic studies 8 Editorial: Venturing into Sounds of Space "How have sonic experiences been conceived, articulated, and elided in histories of outer space and narratives of space exploration? This was the core question addressed in a multidisciplinary workshop Sounds of Space hosted at the Freie Universität Berlin in late 2012. This Journal of Sonic Studies (JSS) special issue includes a selection of articles based on papers presented at the workshop. Using a variety of themes as entry points and mobilizing an array of analytical tools, contributors to the special issue revisited the core question in addition to engaging with related questions that focus on specific sites, historical actors, organizations, and situated practices that encapsulate how our understanding of space is mediated in and through sound. Before introducing the individual contributions and additional material, I will say something about how the conception of the original workshop was primarily based on close encounters with sounds of space during my doctoral research on the history of interstellar communication (Macauley 2010). Further, I will examine how the workshop and present collection emerged from the desire to critically engage with a cluster of anomalies, elisions, and assumptions uncovered during research on the historical relationship between sound and space that prompted a series of perplexing questions." source: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/109716/109717/25/4637 https://sonicfield.org/2014/12/journal-of-sonic-studies-8-sounds-of-space/ Genre Electronic
