Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13331
Rastko Buljančević
{"title":"Neo-liberal Transgressions in the Contemporary Film Industry: Classical Music and Dehumanised Musical Bodies in the Films The Perfection (2018) and Nocturne (2020)","authors":"Rastko Buljančević","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13331","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to examine what I call “dehumanised musical bodies” in the psychological horror films The Perfection and Nocturne. These multi-deficient neo-liberal bodies are exposed to the stereotypical, strikingly negative image of the sophisticated world of art. Particular attention is paid to the provocative treatment of classical music, focusing on the non-normative institutional practices and ethical reconfiguration of their representatives. A strikingly raw form of musical dehumanisation is found in the film The Perfection, whose soundtrack combines ambient sounds of terror and popular tunes with great classical works by Handel, Mozart and Casadesus. The film Nocturne, on the other hand, offers a more contemplative audio-visual aesthetic with a deceptive hierarchisation of the classical music repertoire. Mozart’s music is frivolously devalued, while Saint-Saëns’ “Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor” is used as a narrative device for a destructive manifestation of power that leads to an avalanche of conflict between the sisters. Such explicit play with the classical music signifiers drastically deviates from conventional musical protocols and leads to alienation and, ultimately, transgressive neo-liberal dehumanisation of contemporary musicians.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12572
Dario Ranocchiari, Jara Romero Luque
{"title":"Tefla Madlouma. Resiliencias femeninas y memoria cultural saharaui a través de la realización de un vídeo musical etnográficamente fundamentado","authors":"Dario Ranocchiari, Jara Romero Luque","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12572","url":null,"abstract":"Tefla madlouma es una canción de Mariem Hassan, una de las grandes artistas saharauis. En ella Hassan relata la violencia sufrida por una jóven, transformando un abuso individual en una metáfora del conflicto en curso desde los años 1970 en el Sahara Occidental, que ve enfrentados el Frente Polisario y las fuerzas armadas marroquíes. Considerada particularmente significativa por las mujeres saharauis, Tefla madlouma ha sido elegida por un grupo de activistas del proyecto de etnografía colaborativa Sahara Soundscapes (que incluye las autoras de este texto) para realizar un videoclip musical colectivo. Más allá de su posible aporte a la causa, el proceso creativo y colaborativo que ha visto implicadas a activistas saharauis y no saharauis, etnógrafas y profesionales de la comunicación, ha constituido una ocasión para reflexionar conjuntamente sobre el papel de las mujeres y de su música en la sociedad y cultura saharaui. En este artículo describimos este proceso, desde la grabación de una cover del tema original hasta el montaje final, reflexionando también sobre el uso, en la etnografía colaborativa de las prácticas musicales, de los “vídeos musicales etnográficamente fundamentados”.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13327
Miguel A. García
{"title":"La plataformización del archivo sonoro","authors":"Miguel A. García","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13327","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12027
Deborah González Jurado
{"title":"La ópera Annette… o la vida en la Sociedad de la Información de los años 2020","authors":"Deborah González Jurado","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12027","url":null,"abstract":"La ópera rock Annette –del trío Sparks & Carax– marca un hito musical, visual y social en el contexto de su aparición, pues echa el cerrojo al pasado siendo parte de un futuro al que nos muestra instalado y con visos de quedarse… aunque no sea el que esperábamos. Como producto artístico-comercial de ficción, la obra se sitúa por antonomasia en el imaginario colectivo y en retroalimentación mutua con éste. Refleja y se refleja en la realidad, siempre imaginada. Este artículo realiza un acercamiento a sus contextos histórico-sociales e identifica algunos de los nuevos paradigmas e ideas-fuerza de las mentalidades colectivas enunciados en esta creación a través del análisis cualitativo de sus temáticas, estructura narrativa y lenguaje simbólico.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13328
Miguel A. García
{"title":"The Platformization of the Sound Archive","authors":"Miguel A. García","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13328","url":null,"abstract":"Sound archives are changing. In fact, they started changing in the decade of the 1980s with the impact that digitalization had on recordings, archiving management, and research. Since then, there has been a progressive digitalization of sound collections housed in institutional, commercial, and personal archives. However, digital inscription of sound does not explain everything, as it does not account by itself for the current modes of storing, distributing, and listening to sound recordings. Digital inscription is only a precondition of a new moment in the transformation of archives: its online access, i.e., entering an environment which is dominated by the use of files, hyperlinks, streaming services, virtual storing, software, tutorials, new listening devices, and many other resources and innovations –among which we can see the emergence of the controversial artificial intelligence.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13329
Marta Castello Branco, João Queiroz
{"title":"Creativity and Cognitive Niche Construction in Salvatore Sciarrino’s L’opera per flauto","authors":"Marta Castello Branco, João Queiroz","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13329","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of new musical ideas, and new forms of musicality, is described here as the transformation of conceptual spaces in a cognitive niche, a distributed and self-organised set of intergenerational concepts, materials, and actions. According to this approach, there is a direct co-dependence relation, a co-evolutionary causal looping, between new, acceptable (valid) and surprising musical ideas (which define what is creative in a certain context), agents, tools and artifacts (instruments, musical notations, types of equipment, performance space), and conceivable epistemic and pragmatic actions (instrument techniques, dynamics of collaboration, scenic procedures). This co-evolutionary relation defines a conceptual space of musicality. To demonstrate our thesis, we detail the development of extended techniques for transverse flute, a phenomenon strongly dependent on performer-composer collaboration. We focus on Salvatore Sciarrino’s L’opera per flauto (1990), which was developed in an intensive work with the flautist Roberto Fabbriciani, through investigation of sounding possibilities of the instrument. The collaboration resulted in new and surprising sounds for the transverse flute, including the combination of extended techniques, and their notation, largely applied by later repertoire.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13332
Juan Pablo Llobet Vallejos
{"title":"Escucha e interpretación: un modelo semiótico peirceano para el análisis de la escucha","authors":"Juan Pablo Llobet Vallejos","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.13332","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo propongo un análisis de modos de escucha anclado en la semiótica de Charles S. Peirce y evalúo la conmensurabilidad de este modelo con dos abordajes recientes de la misma problemática (Santaella, 2017; Tuuri y Eerola, 2012). El modelo operativo llamdo “nonágono semiótico” (Guerri et al., 2016; Guerri, 2020) me permite describir nueve modos de eucha y explicitar sus relaciones lógicas en forma de un diagrama. El modelo es adoptado aquí desde una aproximación personal, en la que propongo incorporar los desarrollos tardíos de Peirce sobre su noción del interpretante y los universos de existencia (Jappy, 2017). El carácter diagramático del nonágono semiótico enfatiza el aspecto procesual de la semiosis, evitando el carácter estático de las propuestas taxonómicas. El modelo de la escucha resultante ha sido empleado para tareas de análisis de producciones artísticas en contextos de enseñanza universitaria (Llobet Vallejos et al., 2021) y para el desarrollo de propuestas curatoriales que parten de la apropiación artística de materiales de archivo (Álvarez et al., 2021). Al mismo tiempo, la aproximación personal al nonágono semiótico de la que parte sugiere nuevas líneas teóricas de investigación sobre las aplicaciones de esta metodología y sobre sus bases en la semiótica peirceana.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12285
Samuel Fuentes Fernández, Alicia Díaz de la Fuente
{"title":"Aprender a escuchar, enseñar a entender: la democratización del análisis musical","authors":"Samuel Fuentes Fernández, Alicia Díaz de la Fuente","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n2.12285","url":null,"abstract":"La sociedad de la información ha permitido universalizar, en gran medida, el acceso a la música clásica. Gracias a las nuevas tecnologías se han eliminado la mayoría de barreras geográficas y económicas para llevar este tipo de música a un nuevo público, que abarca potencialmente a toda la humanidad. Sin embargo, muchos de estos nuevos oyentes se encuentran con dificultades a la hora de decodificar el lenguaje y los recursos utilizados en gran parte del repertorio, especialmente el surgido a partir de las corrientes de vanguardia del siglo XX. Ante este escenario, el análisis musical se erige como una herramienta idónea para solventar estas dificultades y romper la última barrera de entrada a la música clásica. Pero para poder llegar a este nuevo público, el propio análisis debe democratizarse: centrarse en sus metodologías más accesibles y no ser víctima de los tecnicismos que aspira a decodificar. Esta democratización solo puede conseguirse observando las características del nuevo público y estudiando las distintas técnicas a disposición de los analistas para ofrecer las herramientas y metodologías adecuadas a los nuevos oyentes.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135453238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n1.10907
Adrien Faure-Carvallo, L. Sánchez-Gómez, Diego Calderón-Garrido, Josep Gustems-Carnicer
{"title":"Manipulación sonora e influencias sobre el consumo musical juvenil","authors":"Adrien Faure-Carvallo, L. Sánchez-Gómez, Diego Calderón-Garrido, Josep Gustems-Carnicer","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n1.10907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n1.10907","url":null,"abstract":"En un contexto de preocupación creciente frente al tráfico de información privada en las redes, la manipulación del individuo y la vulneración de la libertad de decisión de las personas, esta investigación centra su foco de atención en los posibles mecanismos de homogeneización presentes en las músicas de consumo masivo destinadas al público juvenil y adolescente. Para ello, se plantea un estudio descriptivo fenomenológico, a través de una serie de entrevistas, donde se recurre al testimonio de productores discográficos especializados en dichas músicas. Los resultados muestran la existencia de ciertas prácticas de producción musical, estrictamente pautadas y al servicio de la industria discográfica, que ejercen una marcada influencia sobre la percepción, la asimilación y el consumo de las músicas de masas. De este modo, se describen técnicas de grabación y posproducción sonora con capacidad expresiva, que pueden regular las emociones de los oyentes y reforzar imaginarios, ideologías y actitudes a través de la música grabada. También, se comprende el modo en el cual el uso de dichos patrones de manipulación sonora incide directamente sobre las preferencias musicales de los oyentes y contribuye a una deriva preocupante hacia la homogeneización cultural entre los jóvenes de nuestra sociedad.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43545935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oido PensantePub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.34096/oidopensante.v11n1.10704
Jan Herbst, M. Mynett
{"title":"“I Just Go with What Feels Right”. Variance and Commonality in Metal Music Mixing Practice","authors":"Jan Herbst, M. Mynett","doi":"10.34096/oidopensante.v11n1.10704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34096/oidopensante.v11n1.10704","url":null,"abstract":"Metal music is a genre defined by transgression, usually with the musical pursuit of heaviness. Interestingly, this commonly accepted genre-defining criterion, which can be considered as involving progress, conflicts with recent suggestions that the production of metal music is becoming more and more standardized, potentially hindering metal music’s musical evolution. Based on interviews with eight leading metal producers, this study investigates the professionals’ mixing approaches to determine whether they match the presumed standardization. The study finds common mixing approaches that result from the technical requirements of engineering fast, complex, and sonically dense music. However, there are significant alternatives between which producers choose to achieve the desired aesthetic outcomes. A multifaceted genre like metal with its diverse subgenres requires more than one production approach, and the unique combination and nuanced implementation of these approaches facilitate original results. With this in mind, the various production approaches, processes, and techniques appear to be evolving alongside the sub-genres and musical styles, supporting the genre’s quest for transgression and heaviness.","PeriodicalId":40885,"journal":{"name":"Oido Pensante","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48618463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}