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Friday, February 01, 2008

MUSICKING THE NETWORK: THE BODY AS DISTURBANT

One of my forthcoming publications that investigates the network as a site for music performance; in particular, the net’s performative conditions with the tightly linked notion of community that become exposed through the medium of music as an intrinsic social practice.
In this paper we examine the scattered viewpoints that characterize the network and question the idealized view of an all-connectedness. We position the human body as an interrupter of the network, and argue for a framework that, contrary to the often holistic approach to performing in the net, favors glances, fragments and desires....

Schroeder, F. and Rebelo, P. (2008, forthcoming). MUSICKING THE NETWORK: THE BODY AS DISTURBANT. Accepted for the Dispersive Anatomies issue in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.