Reconceptualizing “Music Making:” Music Technology and Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism

C. Benedict, Jared O’Leary
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Recent initiatives by for-profit corporations and funding measures instituted by governments intend to support the preparation of students for careers in computer science and technology. Although such initiatives and measures can indeed increase opportunities for students’ engagement with computer science and technology in K-12 schools, we question whose needs are being served, for what purposes, and at what cost. In particular, we ask whether music educators might be complicit in advancing technology that subordinates human needs—specifically students’ interests in making music in their own creative ways—to modes of production that benefit certain dominant commercial interests in society. After discussing how current computer technology narrows students’ choices, we counter this determinism by highlighting a music subculture that creates and appropriates music technologies for music-related purposes. Our example of the “chipscene” illustrates how music educators might reconceptualize “music making” through modification of existing music technology and thereby restore students’ freedom to “reclaim making” in the age of neoliberalism.
重新定义“音乐制作”:新自由主义时代的音乐技术与自由
营利性公司最近的举措和政府制定的资助措施旨在支持学生为计算机科学和技术的职业生涯做准备。虽然这些举措和措施确实可以增加K-12学校学生参与计算机科学和技术的机会,但我们质疑谁的需求得到了满足,目的是什么,代价是什么。我们特别要问的是,音乐教育工作者是否可能串通一体性地推动技术的发展,使人类的需求——特别是学生以自己的创造性方式创作音乐的兴趣——屈从于有利于社会中某些主导商业利益的生产模式。在讨论了当前的计算机技术如何缩小了学生的选择范围之后,我们通过强调音乐亚文化来对抗这种决定论,这种亚文化创造并利用音乐技术来实现与音乐相关的目的。我们的“芯片场景”的例子说明了音乐教育者如何通过修改现有的音乐技术来重新定义“音乐制作”,从而恢复学生在新自由主义时代“回收制作”的自由。
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