Cover, Custom, and DIY? Memetic Features in Multimedia Creative Practices

Bibliographic Data

ID7733675
AuthorsJosé L Besada (0000-0002-8469-2889, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue4
Pages382-400
Publication date2022-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Music Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07494467.2022.2087389
OpenAlexW4284893091
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited26

It is not unusual nowadays to attend a concert of contemporary music in which live performers and video projection are juxtaposed or truly interact. Internet video-sharing platforms and social media contribute to shape the way these materials are filmed and presented to the audience. My paper focuses on two composer-performers dealing with these kinds of technologies and audiovisual logics: Brigitta Muntendorf and Óscar Escudero. I pay attention to their respective pieces Public Privacy #1: Flute Cover (2013) and Custom #1 (2016). Beyond the inconsequential coincidence of a hashtag in their titles, some similar aspects of their creative processes are found, from the compositional conception to the interaction with performers for personalising the videos. I particularly consider theoretical elements of memetics for a diachronic observation of several creative choices. Finally, I evaluate the impact of participatory culture in the gestation of these pieces

Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Media studies · Memetics · Multimedia · Participatory culture · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Music History and Culture

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