Re-Volution Sampler  – The Aesthetics of a Participatory Archive of Political Songs

This article describes and reflects upon the Re-Volution Sampler installation; an exploratory work to investigate how sonic archival material can be disseminated in engaging ways. The Re-Volution Sampler is a participatory installation which consist of a multi-layered assemblage of sonic documents. Ten political songs represent a multi-lingual mix of international, European and local Danish titles from the last decades. Participants can listen to songs and sing along, applaud, cheer or add verbal comments; they can also start new recordings. During an evaluation period of one week at a semi-public location, qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to collect data on the installation's engaging properties. We observe lively, shared and constructive interactions; that the participation is at the same time restrained; and that questions of power relationships surface as an essential aspect to navigate. The intended empowering effect of the installation appears uncertain and requires further investigation.

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Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath

Stina Hasse

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Publication date: August 2019

Publication date (Print): August 2019

Pages: 122-131

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[0001]IT University

Copenhagen, DK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.20

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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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[1] G. BorggreenR. Gade 2013 Performing Archives/Archives of Performance Museum Tusculanum Pr Copenhagen

[2] H. BundgaardH. Overgaard MogensenC. Rubow 2018 Antropologiske Projekter: En Grundbog Samfundslitteratur Copenhagen

[3] D. Cermak-SassenrathA. OkutsuS. Hasse 2015 Electromagnetic Landscape - In-between signal, noise and environment ISEA 2015: Disruption Proceedings isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_307.pdf September 14 2019

[4] P. Dourish 2004 What we talk about when we talk about context Personal Ubiquitous Comput 8 1 19 30

[5] J. FritschE. GrönvallM. Breinbjerg 2016 Analyzing the aesthetics of participation of media architecture MAB Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Media Architecture Biennale, article no 4

[6] S. Hiller 2012 Song Book Mousse Milan

[7] L. HuybrechtsS. SchepersK. Dreessen 2014 Participation and Risky Trade-offs L. Huybrechts Participation Is Risky: Approaches to Joint Creative Processes Valiz, Amsterdam 9 79

[8] H. JenkinsR. PuroshotmaK. ClintonM. WeigelA. J. Robison 2005 Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century www.newmedialiteracies.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/NMLWhitePaper.pdf February 1 2018

[9] B. Musch-Borowska 2019 Patriotismus-Pop zur politischen Lage Tagesschau.de August 26 www.tagesschau.de/ausland/kaschmir-165.html August 26 2019

[10] M. T. Schäfer 2008 Bastard Culture: User Participation and the Extension of Cultural Industries PhD diss Utrecht Univ Utrecht dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/33564 September 14 2019

[11] K. Schlögel 2018 Das sowjetische Jahrhundert. Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt 3 Beck Munich

[12] K. Kwastek 2013 Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art MIT Pr Cambridge

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