... performance¹

Remember that there are types of music in which this is not desirable - I am sure that for Kraftwerk it would have made no sense to attempt at making the instruments sound more 'human'.

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... 2004²

The seminar was held as a part of the series ``Fria seminarierna'', at Gothenburg University, October 20, 2004. The title of Hannula's presentation was ``What are we talking about when we we talk about artistic research?''

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... technology,³

The term technology is used here to denote the hardware, the machines themselves, and not how they are used - it should not be confused with the Aristotelian notion of techne

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... apparatus'':⁴

Freud quoted in [Derrida, 1978a, pp. 280].

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... not.⁵

Please see http://www.henrikfrisk.com/index.jsp?metaId=music&id=music&about=1 &field=name&query=Insanity for an example of an improvised piece in which pitch has no significance from a structural point of view.

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... music,⁶

Recently the EMS 2006 conference was dedicated to the subject of language and terminology in the field of elctroacoustic music. There is no consensus even for the name of the genre itself [Battier, 2006].

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