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Music Discoveries That Could Have Been (2024)

Andreas Helles Pedersen
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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.
typeresearch exposition
date26/09/2024
published27/09/2024
last modified27/09/2024
statuspublished
copyrightPedersen
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3031615/3031616
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.3031615
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue26. Issue 26


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