Music and Media I Music as a Medium

30.06.2023
Music, Music Education
Iwan Pasuchin, Martin Losert (Hg.)

The way in which we receive and produce music has changed fundamentally in recent decades through the use of digital technologies. Computers have long since taken on more than just a supporting function; they are also increasingly taking on creative tasks in music-making.

Interdisciplinary approaches to a controversial topic

Interjections. Salzburg texts on music - art - pedagogy 

LIT Publishing House, Vienna/Berlin 2023

 

At the same time, music itself can also be understood as a medium that has communicative or mediating properties. Music expresses something that does not require words or any digital tools. Both perspectives are discussed in this anthology and a variety of shades between the two positions are developed. Authors whose opinions, approaches and methods differ significantly and sometimes even contradict each other have their say.