Objects of electronic Sound and music in museums

研究概述模块化合成器在音乐家和发烧友中的受欢迎程度和使用情况正在复苏。然而，造成这一现象的技术、社会社区和音乐几乎没有受到学术界的关注。其结果是，人们对这些框架内形成的身份和角色理解得很少。此外，对当代模块化合成器的这种不充分的文件记录有助于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的了解不足。这项研究旨在通过调查身份和角色是如何在技术、社会和音乐背景下塑造的，以及DIY实践如何影响模块化合成器文化，来洞察模块化合成器对当代电子音乐的贡献。约克郡将进行模组合成器文化的人种学研究。这项演绎研究将测试科学和技术研究(STS)的方法，探索技术、社会和音乐背景下的身份和角色。这项研究将与利兹大学进行的类似研究一起，为电子和计算机音乐领域做出贡献。

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.