Christopher Haworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 359296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Haworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Haworth |
| SIGNATURE | HAWORTH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0587-1465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age
Several scholars have noted parallels between the online communicative tactics of the American alt-right and those of industrial musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. This article explores these connections further by analysing the informational media that industrial musicians developed. Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, these zines, handbooks, and websites made a strenuous break with the values of democracy, egalitarianism, and grassroots authenticit…
Music and Cybernetics in Historical Perspective
There is nothing especially surprising or controversial in observing the significant influence that cybernetics exerted on music, especially in its heyday during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. Indeed, it is hard to see how things might have been otherwise. Cybernetics was distinct from traditional sciences in aspiring to create a universal interdiscipline that patched together the probabilistic worldview of information theory and the flattened abstra…
Space, sonic trajectories and the perception of cadence in electroacoustic music
This paper reports on an exploratory study in the field of electroacoustic music aimed at understanding whether a sensation similar to that associated with the concept of “cadence” in relation to tonal music can be identified when listening to sounds diffused in space. Using a variety of patterned stimuli in a perceptual experiment, we asked listeners to evaluate the completeness of multiple trajectories on the horizontal plane. The results show …
Protentions and Retentions of Xenakis and Cage
This article takes an actor-network theory approach to the elusive genre of microsound. The aim is twofold: to demonstrate what ANT’s sociology of associations can offer to the study of music, and to consider what aspects would need to be rethought in order for ANT to represent a credible approach to art histories and genres. The ANT analysis traces two lines of inheritance in microsound: a ‘weak’ line associated with ‘quiet’ or ‘small’ sounds, a…
From Microsound to Vaporwave
Journal Article From Microsound to Vaporwave: Internet-Mediated Musics, Online Methods, and Genre Get access Georgina Born, Georgina Born University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham; email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Haworth Christopher Haworth University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham…
Ear as Instrument
The desire for instrumental qualities in computer music often leads the artist to a process of “synthetic limitation,” wherein constraint is designed into a performance system, permitting creation only within prescribed limits. These practices can emerge as a consequence of the sheer dearth of possibilities available to the digital artist: as though the path to new sounds and ever more intimate control leads ultimately to a retreat. The author's …
From Microsound to Vaporwave
Journal Article From Microsound to Vaporwave: Internet-Mediated Musics, Online Methods, and Genre Get access Georgina Born, Georgina Born University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham; email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Haworth Christopher Haworth University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham…
Ear as Instrument
The desire for instrumental qualities in computer music often leads the artist to a process of “synthetic limitation,” wherein constraint is designed into a performance system, permitting creation only within prescribed limits. These practices can emerge as a consequence of the sheer dearth of possibilities available to the digital artist: as though the path to new sounds and ever more intimate control leads ultimately to a retreat. The author's …
From Microsound to Vaporwave
Journal Article From Microsound to Vaporwave: Internet-Mediated Musics, Online Methods, and Genre Get access Georgina Born, Georgina Born University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham; email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Haworth Christopher Haworth University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham…
Protentions and Retentions of Xenakis and Cage
This article takes an actor-network theory approach to the elusive genre of microsound. The aim is twofold: to demonstrate what ANT’s sociology of associations can offer to the study of music, and to consider what aspects would need to be rethought in order for ANT to represent a credible approach to art histories and genres. The ANT analysis traces two lines of inheritance in microsound: a ‘weak’ line associated with ‘quiet’ or ‘small’ sounds, a…
Music and Cybernetics in Historical Perspective
There is nothing especially surprising or controversial in observing the significant influence that cybernetics exerted on music, especially in its heyday during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. Indeed, it is hard to see how things might have been otherwise. Cybernetics was distinct from traditional sciences in aspiring to create a universal interdiscipline that patched together the probabilistic worldview of information theory and the flattened abstra…
Space, sonic trajectories and the perception of cadence in electroacoustic music
This paper reports on an exploratory study in the field of electroacoustic music aimed at understanding whether a sensation similar to that associated with the concept of “cadence” in relation to tonal music can be identified when listening to sounds diffused in space. Using a variety of patterned stimuli in a perceptual experiment, we asked listeners to evaluate the completeness of multiple trajectories on the horizontal plane. The results show …
Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age
Several scholars have noted parallels between the online communicative tactics of the American alt-right and those of industrial musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. This article explores these connections further by analysing the informational media that industrial musicians developed. Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, these zines, handbooks, and websites made a strenuous break with the values of democracy, egalitarianism, and grassroots authenticit…
Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media, Communication, and Education (2 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)