{"product_id":"electronic-baroque-isbn-9780262553636","title":"Electronic Baroque","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating, real-time ethnography of the building of a unique musical instrument with both mechanical and electronic components.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectronic Baroque\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how a baroque pipe organ with both a mechanical and an electronic interface was built. The book also explores how, in musical practices, the new comes into being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 A New Baroque Organ\u003cbr\u003e2 Travelling to the Organ Worlds of Bach\u003cbr\u003e3 Designing an Archaic Technology\u003cbr\u003e4 Making Things Fit Together\u003cbr\u003e5 Crafting the Sound of Hildebrandt’s Pipes\u003cbr\u003e6 Imagining an Organ We Do Not Know\u003cbr\u003e7 Playing Bach\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex“This lovely book’s light and fluid style will appeal to instrumentalists and musicians while its theoretically informed analysis of the step-by-step making of a highly technical object will fascinate researchers and students in science and technology studies (STS).”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Antoine Hennion, Centre for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Peters succeeds in describing an extremely complex undertaking in a way that invites everyone into the heart of the artistic process. The Utopa Baroque Organ is both a cutting-edge reconstruction of a historical sound world and a hyperorgan that is an unlimited tonal resource for contemporary composers and performers alike. Let \u003ci\u003eElectronic Baroque\u003c\/i\u003e be your guide to this fascinating new world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joel Speerstra, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg\u003c\/b\u003ePeter 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 \u003ci\u003eDialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClassical Music Futures\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233141174501,"sku":"NP9780262553636","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262553636.jpg?v=1767726139","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/electronic-baroque-isbn-9780262553636","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}