Publication details
Člověk – hudba – technika: K otázce vlivu technologií na hudební myšlení 20. a počátku 21. století
| Title in English | Man – music – technology: The question of the influence of technology on the musical thinking of the 20th and early 21st century |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
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| Description | The present habilitation thesis examines the modalities of human relations and technology as reflected in the musical thinking of the authors of artificial music of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The discursive and reference frame of the treatise consists mainly of individual artistic poetics and more general musical-aesthetic reflections embedded in the basic theoretical concepts of technology and its functions in culture and society. The starting point of the work is Heidegger's lecture Die Frage nach Technik, in which the author suggests humanising technology through art. The following chapters examine the relationship between man, music and technology from three points of view. Chap. 3 deals with music from a technical point of view, Chap. 4 analyses the transformation of the musical artefact in the developmental arch of the 20th century from numerical abstraction through digitisation to materialisation in musical as well as non-musical art forms. Chap. 5 is a representation of man and his thinking in relation to technology in music. Here we distinguish four basic types of attitude in musical thinking on technology, sorted by the degree of influence attributed to technology: techno-utopian/techno-optimistic, technorealistic, technosceptic and post-technological. In the latter, we define four basic artistic strategies forming separate types: critical attitude, adaptation of technological models, recycling and inspiration. These strategies are ranked from generally negative attitudes, through specifically positive to generally positive. |