Live from the Other Side of Nowhere
Contemplating Musical Performance in an Age of Virtual Reality
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In recent years VR has become an increasingly prevalent platform for musical performance—Björk, U2, Gorillaz, and even the LA Philharmonic all having taken to the virtual stage. These virtual encounters profoundly disrupt assumptions long held to be true of live music, undermining the necessity of physical and temporal co-presence, exploding our expectations of performance spaces, opening up new possibilities for performance involving avatars, and affording intimate encounters otherwise impossible in the physical world.
Proceeding through a series of case studies and analyses, and drawing in equal parts on the findings of musicology, performance, film, and media and cultural studies, Live from the Other Side of Nowhere begins to pry apart the conceptual challenges that this disruptive technology poses to our understanding of the "live" as an autonomous category of musical activity.
Author Biography:
Sam Cleeve is a researcher at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Studies. His work has appeared in journals such as Perspectives of New Music and Digital Creativity, with reviews in Popular Music and IASPM@Journal
Release date NZ
August 26th, 2021
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208
Audience
- Tertiary Education (US: College)
ISBN-13
9781501346354
Product ID
30820348
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