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DESCRIPTION:Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music\n\nKyle Devine\n	Head
  of Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Musicology at th
 e University of Oslo\n\nMusic is seen as the most immaterial of the arts\,
  and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from p
 hysical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed\, Kyle Devine offers anot
 her perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significan
 t exploiter of both natural and human resources\, and that its reliance on
  these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncove
 rs the hidden history of recorded music—what recordings are made of and wh
 at happens to them when they are disposed of.\n	\n	Devine's story focuses on
  three forms of materiality. Before 1950\, 78 rpm records were made of she
 llac\, a bug-based resin. Between 1950 and 2000\, formats such as LPs\, ca
 ssettes\, and CDs were all made of petroleum-based plastic. Today\, record
 ings exist as data-based audio files. Devine describes the people who harv
 est and process these materials\, from women and children in the Global So
 uth to scientists and industrialists in the Global North. He reminds us th
 at vinyl records are oil products\, and that the so-called vinyl revival i
 s part of petrocapitalism. The supposed immateriality of music as data is 
 belied by the energy required to power the internet and the devices requir
 ed to access music online. We tend to think of the recordings we buy as fi
 nished products. Devine offers an essential backstory. He reveals how a ra
 nge of apparently peripheral people and processes are actually central to 
 what music is\, how it works\, and why it matters.\n\n \n\nhttps://www.fac
 ebook.com/events/525740037985056/\n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series | Kyle Devine 'Decomposed: The Political Ecology of 
 Music'
URL:/ahcs/channels/event/speaker-series-kyle-devine-de
 composed-political-ecology-music-300449
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