Title: Issues of Ubiquitous Music Archaeology
Abstract:
Ubiquitous music (ubimus) is an evolving research field dealing with cross-disciplinary questions that affect music, technology, cognition, computational thinking, education, among many other areas. One of its most interesting themes of research that has emerged in recent years is ubimus archaeology (a-ubimus), focused on the study of resources and artefacts (technological, aural) from musical practices of the recent past. Deriving part of its methodology from software archaeology, a-ubimus aims to shine light on its objects of study to reassess established assumptions and concepts surrounding them. In this lecture, we will explore some of the results of a-ubimus research on the early period of computer music 1960-69, which have been published recently in a series of peer-reviewed articles. These include a host of new findings, and the development of a new awareness about the period and its practices, which demonstrate the usefulness of the approach.