Andreas Helles Pedersen

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Andreas Helles Pedersen is an information specialist at Copenhagen University Library, where he advises on research data management and offers support concerning Open Science. He holds a PhD in musicology from Lund University on a research project about the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s music archive. His research interests span from music historiography and aesthetic theory, over streaming practices and media philosophy, to archival and information studies. He has published on music metadata, informed listening, musical experience, and digital music archives in the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Swedish Journal of Music Research, and the anthology Music in the Disruptive Era: The Digital, the Internet, and Beyond.

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  • Music Discoveries That Could Have Been (2024) author(s): Andreas Helles Pedersen published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Envision a mobile application focusing on music discovery via operationalized and interrelated metadata. Imagine that this application builds on a certain record collection developed under the auspices of a public service institution. Then visualize the application as a vehicle for telling forgotten and neglected histories of recorded music, and you have DR DJ. This article reads the digital music archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) through the media archaeological notion of imaginary media by discussing a proposal for music discovery that never came to be. This proposal is a discarded idea for a mobile application called DR DJ, which the article assesses through Siegfried Zielinski’s concept of variantology. The article provides an analysis of DR’s actual digital music archive by viewing the unfulfilled potentials and desires of DR DJ as imaginary media co-constituting the realized technologies of DR’s music communication. The article evolves a speculative scenario where an actualized DR DJ potentiates experiences of concurrent lines in the history of recorded music, while also highlighting structural limitations and a reaffirmation of Western modalities.
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