PASSAGE TO VIRTUALITY

MUTATIONS OF THE SOUND ARCHIVE AND ITS USERS

Authors

  • Miguel A. Garcia Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

sound archive, virtual environment, final user, sound file, screen

Abstract

The article discusses some of the consequences of sound archive virtualization for research. With this purpose, I discuss a moment of archiving that I call “download fever”, the commercial music distribution through a continuous flow system called streaming, the ubiquity of the sound file, the empowerment that the end user acquires through the screen and the boundaries between institutional and non-institutional archives. Finally, I refer to a state of drift which the archive acquires when uploading in the virtual environment, and the need to rethink the new conditions of research in that environment.

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Author Biography

Miguel A. Garcia, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctor en Antropología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Profesor de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA). Investigador Principal del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina). Director de El oído pensante. Algunos de los últimos libros: Los archivos de las (etno)musicologías. Reflexiones sobre sus usos, sentidos y condición virtual (editor, 2023), Sudamérica y sus mundos audibles. Cosmologías y prácticas sonoras de los pueblos indígenas (coedición con B. Brabec de Mori y M. Lewy, 2015) y Etnografías del encuentro. Saberes y relatos sobre otras músicas (2012). magarcia@conicet.gov.ar / switayah@yahoo.com.ar

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Published

2023-12-30

How to Cite

Garcia, M. A. (2023). PASSAGE TO VIRTUALITY: MUTATIONS OF THE SOUND ARCHIVE AND ITS USERS. DEBATES - Cadernos Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Música, 28, e2824D2. Retrieved from https://seer.unirio.br/revistadebates/article/view/13206

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Vol. 28 (2024): Revista Debates

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Thematic dossier

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