Dalibor Davidović, Ksenija Stevanović (eds.): Archipelagos of Sound. Music and Its History Within the Imperial World Order (2005)

In this booklet we will focus on two general aspects that are to be singled out from a wide range of the possibilities suggested by subtitle Music and its History Within the Imperial World Order: What could be a definition of the historicity of music/sound-material that reflects the basic determinants of the digital age? The question is centered on multiplicity of the present in the past, i.e. how a contemporary view rediscovers the musical history. Post-globalized world, the one after first cycle of globalization, is just the one aspect of taking-place of the world, unable to completely consume up all the potentials of worldliness. Borrowing here Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of mondialisation, which designates a powerful reassessment of the notions of world and creation, we’re interested what such a concept – mondialisation – could mean for the music. What does it mean to make (create) music after the globalization?

With texts by Peter Szendy, DJ Spooky and Stevanović & Davidović
Translation: Irena Ajdinović, Dalibor Davidović, Ksenija Stevanović
Publisher: Croatian Composers’ Society – Cantus d.o.o., 2005
Joint-production of Music Biennale Zagreb and Multimedia Institute
80 pages

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