“The author Martin Flašar has undertaken research that is long overdue concerning the relationship between the musician and rapidly evolving technology including techniques within music. The author focuses on 20th- and 21st-century art music exploring a period of the most rapid and extreme revolutions this art form has ever known. Instead of empirically analysing selected examples, Flašar has taken on the greater challenge of investigating his subject within the context of centuries of philosophy, sociology, and critical theory as well as music and musicology. He presents a methodology that is clearly applicable well beyond this subject and offers a readable yet profound volume discussing and contextualising the diverse horizon of relationships musicians have with their technology ranging from avoidance to dependence, assisting in its development to applying technology only when useful. This book represents the launch of an essential field of study.” Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2), De Montfort University, Leicester
Musica Poetica, and he composes music.
Mankind – Music – Technology Technology in the Musical Thinking of the 20th and Early 21st Centuries
Mankind — Music — Technology
Martin Flašar (*1979) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology, Masaryk University in Brno. His major specializations include music of the 20th and 21st centuries in the context of electronic media and multimedia. The broader scope of his publications ranges from the historiography of 20th-century Czech music to aesthetic and technological aspects of contemporary music. He has been a member of the panel of experts of the Czech Ministry of Culture and of the Czech Science Foundation and a long-term associate of Czech music journals and mass media. From 2004 to 2011 he was the editor of the journal Opus musicum, and he is currently the editor of the journal Musicologica Brunensia. He plays the violin in the ensembles Indigo Quartet, Serpens Cantat, and
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Prof. Leigh Landy, director of the Music, Technology and Innovation –
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