Life in the groove: Re-visiting the common sense of sound reproduction

In this paper, we describe our project of “Life in the Groove,” an attempt to re-examine the material and historical basis of sound reproduction. Through this paper, we would like to argue that the realities are more complex than the oft-told tales. We will re-visit the common sense of sound reproduction with the following three of our works of the project, “Groovular Synthesis – the Edison Effect revisited” - Paul DeMarinis (2019), “Au Clair de la Lune on Gramophone - For Édouard- Léon Scott and László Moholy- Nagy” - Kazuhiro Jo (1860/1923/2015), and “Mary Had a Little Lamb” - Paul DeMarinis and Kazuhiro Jo (2019)

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Kazuhiro Jo

Paul DeMarinis

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Publication date: August 2019

Publication date (Print): August 2019

Pages: 72-75

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[0001]Faculty of Design, Kyushu University / YCAM

Fukuoka / Yamaguchi, Japan

[0002]Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.11

SO-VID: 74f67dae-53d1-45bf-8002-559b8559e197

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

Conference acronym: RE:SOUND 2019

Conference number: 8

Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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R. Black 2009 BTc Sound Encoder 3.0 Software https://www.romanblack.com/picsound.htm September 13 2019
C. Cox 2018 Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics University of Chicago Press
T. A. Edison 1878 Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Alfred Marshall Mayer, February 11th, 1878 Edison Papers Digital Edition http://edison.rutgers.edu/digital/document/X095AA September 13 2019
K. Jo 2018 Au Clair de la Lune on Gramophone "For Édouard-Léon Scott and László MoholyNagy" 1860 1923 2015 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ‘18) ACM, New York, NY, USA 517 520 https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173300
P. Kornicki 2012 THE HYAKUMANTÖ DARANI AND THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING IN EIGHTHCENTURY JAPAN International Journal of Asian Studies 9 1 43 70 DOI:10.1017/S1479591411000180
L. Moholy-Nagy 1923 1989 New Plasticism in Music. Possibilities of the Gramophone Broken Music: Artists’ Recordworks, Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des Daad and gelbe Musik Berlin, Germany 53 58
A. V. D. OordS. DielemanH. ZenK. SimonyanO. VinyalsA. GravesK. Kavukcuoglu 2016 Wavenet: A generative model for raw audio. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03499
C. SeiffarthI. Beirer 2011 Buried in Noise, Kehrer Verlag 127 139
J. Sterne 2003 The audible past: Cultural origins of sound reproduction Duke University Press
M. Thompson 2017 Beyond unwanted sound: noise, affect and aesthetic moralism Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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[1] R. Black 2009 BTc Sound Encoder 3.0 Software https://www.romanblack.com/picsound.htm September 13 2019

[2] C. Cox 2018 Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics University of Chicago Press

[3] T. A. Edison 1878 Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Alfred Marshall Mayer, February 11th, 1878 Edison Papers Digital Edition http://edison.rutgers.edu/digital/document/X095AA September 13 2019

[4] K. Jo 2018 Au Clair de la Lune on Gramophone "For Édouard-Léon Scott and László MoholyNagy" 1860 1923 2015 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ‘18) ACM, New York, NY, USA 517 520 https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173300

[5] P. Kornicki 2012 THE HYAKUMANTÖ DARANI AND THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING IN EIGHTHCENTURY JAPAN International Journal of Asian Studies 9 1 43 70 DOI:10.1017/S1479591411000180

[6] L. Moholy-Nagy 1923 1989 New Plasticism in Music. Possibilities of the Gramophone Broken Music: Artists’ Recordworks, Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des Daad and gelbe Musik Berlin, Germany 53 58

[7] A. V. D. OordS. DielemanH. ZenK. SimonyanO. VinyalsA. GravesK. Kavukcuoglu 2016 Wavenet: A generative model for raw audio. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03499

[8] C. SeiffarthI. Beirer 2011 Buried in Noise, Kehrer Verlag 127 139

[9] J. Sterne 2003 The audible past: Cultural origins of sound reproduction Duke University Press

[10] M. Thompson 2017 Beyond unwanted sound: noise, affect and aesthetic moralism Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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