Volume 4, Issue 1 – July 2020

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

Music and Technology (Part I)

’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 here.

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

Edmund Hunt – Editorial

Matthew DF Evans – From Text to Sound and Sound to Image – Matthew DF Evans

Matthew No-one – WAITING FOR GANDHARVA [the ephemeral disembodiment of being]

Mattia Merlini & Stefano Maria Nicoletti – Inhuman, All Too Inhuman: Intrinsic Limits of Computational Creativity in Music

Ian Davies interview with Danielle Moore: Talking Tech, Lockdown and the Importance of Live Music

Sophie Rose – Push and Pull: Creative Practice and Creating Technologies

David Kerr and Hashim Rubanza – Sounding Tanzania in the Studios of Dar es Salaam

Lachlan Goold & Sean Foran – The Changing Nature of Jazz Artists within the Recording Technology Space

Supriya Nagarajan – Lullaby-Sonic Cradle