Music Discoveries That Could Have Been
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Envision a mobile application focusing on music discovery via operationalized and interrelated metadata. Imagine that this application builds on a certain record collection developed under the auspices of a public service institution. Then visualize the application as a vehicle for telling forgotten and neglected histories of recorded music, and you have DR DJ. This article reads the digital music archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) through the media archaeological notion of imaginary media by discussing a proposal for music discovery that never came to be. This proposal is a discarded idea for a mobile application called DR DJ, which the article assesses through Siegfried Zielinski’s concept of variantology. The article provides an analysis of DR’s actual digital music archive by viewing the unfulfilled potentials and desires of DR DJ as imaginary media co-constituting the realized technologies of DR’s music communication. The article evolves a speculative scenario where an actualized DR DJ potentiates experiences of concurrent lines in the history of recorded music, while also highlighting structural limitations and a reaffirmation of Western modalities. keywords:
Source: Journal of sonic studies
DOI: 10.22501/jss.3031615
Author: Andreas Helles Pedersen
Language: English
Topic: Sound Studies and Aurality
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404922463