Electronic Baroque - (Inside Technology) by Peter F Peters (Paperback)

About the Book

"A look at a baroque pipe organ built with both a mechanical and electronic interface: a history of technology that explores how new musical practices come into being"--

Book Synopsis

A fascinating, real-time ethnography of the building of a unique musical instrument with both mechanical and electronic components.

Electronic Baroque tells the story of a baroque pipe organ which has both a mechanical and an electronic interface and how it was built. The book also explores how, in musical practices, the new comes into being.

In 2013, the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, a concert venue dedicated to organists who want to give their instrument a new role in musical life, embarked on a project to make a unique instrument. This new baroque organ project combined principles and practices from historically informed organ building with the design and application of new computer hardware and software. Drawing on hermeneutic, pragmatist, and post-actor network theoretical approaches to history and music, Peter Peters describes and analyzes how the dual design of the organ, facing both past and present, reiterates the long history of these instruments.

About the Author

Peter F. Peters is Associate Professor and Endowed Professor in the Innovation of Classical Music at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, and Director of the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM). He coedited Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies and Classical Music Futures.