Reading Group - Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola
The LUCAS research reading group The Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics is dedicated to examining affective, cognitive-enactive, and new materialist approaches to the arts, and open to all interested in the experiential interactions between the arts (in a broad sense) and viewers–readers–makers.
It's open to anyone interested in experiential interactions between art, its makers, and their audiences.
Come join the next LUCAS “Role of Experience” reading group session! Ruth A Clemens will discuss her postdoc project ‘Posthuman Music Machines: Literature in the Age of the Pianola,’ “focusing on how representations of the player-piano invest in the blurred phenomenological and affective lines between instrument/medium, recording/performance, human/machine, and body/prosthesis."
Text and video for the reading:
- McGraw, Andrew. “Atmosphere as a Concept for Ethnomusicology: Comparing the Gamelatron and Gamelan.” Ethnomusicology, vol. 60, no. 1, 2016, pp. 125–47. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.60.1.0125.
- Video: George Antheil, Ballet Mécanique Roll 1, 7:31, https://youtu.be/9ijD4dU5_Jg?si=d27KlLdzDocn4fUh
More on the LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” cross-cluster research theme at https://researchplatform.art/projects/lucas-research-group/.
Contact: Sophie van Romburgh s.g.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
