Map-making towards an onto-cartography of the digital audio workstation
Abstract
Levi Bryant’s concept of “onto-cartography,” (2014) or “map-making,” presents a compelling framework for understanding complex systems, objects, and media. Map-making involves understanding these in terms of the operations of their constituent parts, what Bryant terms “machines.” This “machine-oriented ontology” can be applied in order to map the digital audio workstation (DAW), a complex medium that pervades the creation of virtually all recorded music today, yet has evaded sustained critical investigation as a mediator of recorded sound. Using Bryant’s four kinds of maps as a framework, the ways map-making might contribute to more nuanced understandings of the DAW, and how such a framework can lead to new compositional methodologies using the DAW, are explored.
RAS ID
20739
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Publication
2015
Location of the Work
University of Technology Sydney
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Copyright
free_to_read
Publisher
Australasian Computer Music Association
Comments
Terren, M., & Hope, C. (2015). Map-Making Towards an Onto-Cartography of the Digital Audio Workstation. Paper presented at the Australasian Computer Music Conference, Sydney. Available here.