Materiality and Knowledge. The Aesthetics of the Music Archive as an Institution.

历史录音档案是知识的场所。这种知识同时是通过包含它们的声音对象的物质性来构建的，也是它们的物质性的一部分，它存在于它们所产生和代表的知识秩序中，也存在于它们所代表并作为其一部分的制度中。考虑到批判性档案理论的最新发展，本项目认为声音档案的相关性及其对当代音乐实践和话语的潜在影响不仅通过它们提供的历史叙述来实现，而且通过它们独特的美学来实现。这种独特的美学在这里被理解为那些使材料的衔接、预构和知识层次秩序的表现具有意义的效果。以这种方式使知识的顺序可感知，并不是通过单一的档案材料发生的。相反，这种排序是通过档案结构来实现的，它赋予档案一种特定的形式，而这种形式反过来又可以在语义和象征意义上被赋予意义。与此同时，档案自身也被贴上标签、进行分类，并将自身构建为一种结构，从而形成一种自我参照的内部档案结构。这就形成了一种特定于档案的传播模式，与其他美学形式一样，具有情感潜力。这种独特的档案美学及其对音乐学的深远分析潜力是拟议研究项目的重点。具体来说，这需要对包含北印度拉格音乐的各种档案进行系统分析。存放在乔治奥古斯特大学音乐系Göttingen的van Lamsweerde收藏是该项目的核心分析材料。在项目结束时，将有一个高度学术相关的收藏供未来研究使用。在理论层面上，这个跨学科的开创性研究项目考察了声音档案作为知识场所的特殊和异常强大的细节。

Historical sound recording archives are places of knowledge. This knowledge is simultaneously constructed through and part of the materiality of the sound objects that contain them, and it resides in the order of knowledge that they produce and represent as well as in the institutions that they both stand for and are a part of. Considering and building on recent developments in critical archival theory, this project argues that the relevance of sound archives for and their potential influence on contemporary musical practices and discourses are not only achieved through the historical narrative that they afford, but are also attained through their distinctive aesthetic.This distinctive aesthetic is here understood as those effects that make the material"s articulation, prefiguration, and manifestation of a hierarchical order of knowledge sense-able. Making orders of knowledge perceptible in this way does not happen through singular archival material. Rather, such ordering happens through archival structuring, which gives archives a specific form that can, in turn, become semantically and symbolically charged. Simultaneously, the archive labels and categorizes itself and builds itself as a structure so that a self-referential, inner-archival structure emerges. This results in an archive-specific mode of transmission that, like other aesthetic forms, has affective potential. This distinctive archival aesthetic and its far-reaching analytical potential for musicology at large are the focus of the proposed research project. Concretely, this entails the systematic analysis of various archives containing North Indian raga music. The van Lamsweerde collection, stored at the Musicological Department at the Georg August University Göttingen, is the project"s core analytical material. At the end of the project, a highly academically relevant collection will be accessible for future research. On a theoretical level, this transdisciplinary, pioneering research project examines the exceptional and exceptionally powerful specifics of sound archives as locations of knowledge.