[microsound-announce] New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Jonny Trunk. Part I (library music collector)

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*MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Jonny Trunk. Part I
*
Jonny Trunk walks us through a hard-to-find and yet very familiar genre:
library music. Or as he puts it: 'The strange noise that TV makes at night.'

*Produced by Matias Rossi*

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_jonny_trunk/capsula
Related info:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20121008/Memorabilia_Jonny_Trunk_eng.pdf
MP3: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/memorabilia/05_memorabilia_jonny_trunk.mp3

Creator of a collection of some six thousand records, Jonny Trunk admits
that he has never ceased to follow a maxim that his parents instilled in
him at a very young age: 'If you buy something new, you lose money.'
Nonetheless, it isn’t the figures that make his record collection
exceptional and worth sharing, but the two thousand records of archival or
library music that it includes.

It isn't easy to sum up the concept of library music or to explain what it
is and what it's like. Library music, 'sonorizzazioni' (another of the
terms used in this fascinating musical underworld), or archival music,
refers to sound recordings produced for professional use in the context of
film, television and radio. It is a prolific industry that, according to
its scholars, achieved its greatest splendour from the sixties to the
mid-eighties, and is governed by series of aesthetic, production, marketing
and distribution rules that lie outside of the established channels. It is
utilitarian music, created for commercial purposes, in which,
paradoxically, musicians and composers take on a professional role and find
themselves forced to resolve highly abstract matters and situations, such
as developing a narrative that is subordinate to images (in soundtracks) or
coming up with an entire imaginary without any pre-existing references.
Library music is also a poorly documented genre, full of oddities and
bristling with strange experiments.

Previous episodes: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/memorabilia_tag/


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