Publication details
Od kódu k hmotě
| Title in English | From Code to Material |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Music is one of the most abstract of all the arts. It is comprised simply of the vibrations of different materials represented in the symbolic form of notation or a recording, and the fleeting space-time of its existence is Walter Benjamin’s “here and now”. When music moved over to a digital environment, it broke the last links to material media and became an abstract code. The already powerful desire of artists for something tangible and physically malleable was intensified by the increasing dematerialisation of the world of music. Throughout its history music has had to face the fact of its disappearance. As a passing gesture in space-time it was always obliged to look for other media upon which it might inscribe its form and thereby escape its own transience. Whether this involved human memory, stone, paper, or any other medium, the aim was the same: to achieve immortality. |