Objects of electronic Sound and music in museums

研究概述模块化合成器正在经历一个复苏的流行和使用之间的音乐家和爱好者。然而，创造这种现象的技术，社会团体和音乐却很少受到学术界的关注。其结果是，在这些框架内形成的身份和作用知之甚少。此外，当代模块化合成器的文献资料不足，导致人们对该乐器对当代音乐技术、社区和音乐实践的更广泛框架的影响缺乏了解。本研究旨在通过调查身份和角色如何在技术，社会和音乐背景下形成以及DIY实践如何影响模块化合成器文化，深入了解模块化合成器对当代电子音乐的贡献。将对约克郡的模块化合成器文化进行民族志研究。这项演绎研究将测试科学和技术研究（STS）的方法，探索技术，社会和音乐背景中的身份和角色。这项研究将有助于电子和计算机音乐领域一起在利兹大学进行类似的研究。

Overview of the ResearchThe modular synthesizer is experiencing a resurgence in popularity and use among musicians and enthusiasts. However the technology, social community and music that created this phenomenon has received little scholarly attention. The consequence is that identities and roles shaped within these frameworks are poorly understood. Furthermore, this insufficient documentation of the contemporary modular synthesizer contributes to a poor understanding of the instrument's impact on the wider framework of contemporary music technologies, communities and musical practice. This research aims to provide an insight into the contribution that the modular synthesizer makes to contemporary electronic music by investigating how identities and roles are shaped within technical, social and musical contexts and how DIY practice impacts on modular synthesizer culture. An ethnographic study of modular synthesizer culture in Yorkshire will be conducted. This deductive research will test approaches from Science and Technology Studies (STS), exploring identities and roles within technical, social and musical contexts. This research will contribute to the field of Electronic and Computer Music alongside similar research conducted at the University of Leeds.