Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2020

Guest editor: Dr Edmund Hunt, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK)

Music and Technology (Part II)

’Technology is something I love and hate at the same time. One one hand the absence of any kind of technology means silence (or an environment of natural sounds which we hear much clearer because of the general silence); on the other hand, you need technology to make art’.

Christina Kubisch, ‘Artists’ Statements II: Christina Kubisch’, in The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, ed. by Nick Collins and Julio d’Escriván, 2nd edn (Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2017:176)

This issue of Riffs engage with music and technology, and the ways in which we communicate our insights, observations, engagements and relationships between them.

The links below will take you to individual pages for the articles in this issue. All are available to download. The full issue can be read online here.

Design work by Iain A. Taylor. Riffs front cover design by Adam Williams.

Edmund Hunt – Editorial – Edmund Hunt

Ian Davies – Interview with Moshino Royal

Regan Bowering – Human / Machine / Rhythm – Regan Bowering

Henry Morgan – Bringing You The Meaning and The Knowledge Behind The Music

Anna Murray – Signs and Scenes

Sylvia Hinz – Considerations of Utopian and Dystopian Futures of Music

Silvia Rosani – From New Audiences to Surprised Performers – Silvia Rosani

Helen Papaioannou and Alessandro Altavilla – Switch, Blend, Aggregate, Divide