The Materiality of Digital Music: An Assemblage of Musicians and Vital Materials.

越来越多的人认识到音乐材料不是被动的；他们拥有影响数字音乐制作的创造性潜力。然而，关于材料如何影响数字音乐，许多问题仍未得到解答。本项目将结合Actor-Network-Theory （ANT）、组合理论、生命唯物主义和音乐分析来探索数字音乐的物质性。这项研究将不同于以往对数字音乐中非人类的研究，它将关注工作室创造力的动态过程，而不是静态对象。它将通过观察金斯顿大学维斯康蒂工作室的录音和制作实践来支持。这项研究将指出数字材料是如何影响音乐制作过程的，并将它们的作用理论化。这项研究将通过记录一种音乐形式的出现来促进音乐唯物主义的发展，在这种音乐形式中，材料本身与音乐家之间的互动一样多。该研究的方法论在理论和实践上都很重要，有助于迫切地寻找对数字音乐的生态理解。该项目将展示音乐家在活性材料的生态系统中工作，并将突出涉及数字音乐制作的生态材料。它将揭示在数字音乐的共同创造过程中，人类和非人类物质机构之间的相互作用。

There is an increased recognition that musical materials are not passive; they possess the creative potential to influence digital music production. Yet, many questions remain unanswered about how materials impact digital musicking. This project will combine Actor-Network-Theory (ANT), assemblage theory, vital materialism and musical analysis to explore the materiality of digital music. The research will differ from previous studies of non-humans in digital music by centring on the dynamic processes, rather than static objects, of studio creativity. It will be supported by the observation of the recording and production practices at Kingston University's Visconti Studio. This research will pinpoint how digital materials affect the music-making process and theorise their agency. This research will contribute to the growing field of musical materialism by documenting the emergence of a musical form in which the materials themselves have as much agency as the musicians interacting with them. With a methodology that is material both in theory and in practice, the research contributes to the urgent effort of finding an ecological understanding of digital music. The project will present musicians as working in an ecosystem of active materials and it will highlight the ecological materials that are involved in digital music production. It will shed light on the interaction between human and non-human material agencies in the co-creative processes of digital musicking.