Music & Hacking International Conference

November 8, 2017 - November 10, 2017
Musée du Quai Branly

37 quai Branly
Paris 75007
France

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The “Music & Hacking: Instruments, Communities, Values” conference intends to look at musicians and technicians’ practices which – explicitly or implicitly – could be seen as musical hacking activities.

Since the turn of the last century, computer coding and digital instruments continue to transform the aesthetic, ergonomic, communicational, and ethical dimensions of musical practices. These shifts are taking place in part under the banner of hacking, a notion which is primarily associated with the IT world. However, it has progressively infiltrated and structured a number of other fields, such as that of artistic creation. Hacker values include re-appropriation of mass-produced technical products and a focus on freely accessible communal know-how, as well as the pleasure of serendipity, subversion, and manipulation. In sum, hacking is the foundation of a disparate, discreet form of social protest: a reaction to a normalized, globalized commercial and industrial culture.

The conference will focus on three general themes: organological hacking, creation and federation of musical communities through hacking, and the influence of hacker ethics on musical practices. At the end of the conference, a Music Hack Day will be organized on the premises of IRCAM, which will give us a chance to extend and test our reflections on musical hacking.

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·      Invention and subversion of instruments

·      Non-conformist instrumental practices

·      Hacking, organology, museology

·      DIY, circuit bending, and making

·      Squats, fab labs, and makerspaces

·      Hacking and socializations

·      Opportunity, serendipity, and innovation 

·      Music and open source

·      Musical hacking and intellectual property

·      Hacker ethics and axiology

·      Coding and transcoding music

·      Musical hacking and the emergence of digital culture

·      Musical hacking and the history of information technologies 

·      Musical hacking and digital art forms

·      Cultural industries and counter-cultures

·      Music Hack Days, tech providers, and web audio

·      Demoscene and derivations of hacking

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