Imperfections and Intimacies : Trebling Effects and the Improvisational Aesthetics of Pandemic-Era Livestreaming
Fiche du document
2021
- handle: 10670/1.dflhvi
- doi: 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6471
Ce document est lié à :
Critical Studies in Improvisation ; vol. 14 no. 1 (2021)
©, 2021LauraRisk
Sujets proches
Serious music Musical compositions Art music Musical works Classical music Western music (Western countries) Art music, Western Western art musicCiter ce document
Laura Risk, « Imperfections and Intimacies : Trebling Effects and the Improvisational Aesthetics of Pandemic-Era Livestreaming », Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, ID : 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6471
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
This article develops the concept of an improvisational aesthetic of imperfection and intimacy for “trebling-effect” music livestreams, or webcasts where listeners may interact with each other (and possibly with the performer) during the stream via text chat. I position the pandemic-era turn towards livestreaming within scholarly discourses of “liveness” and in conversation with recent work on the impact of audio streaming platforms on listeners’ understandings of the functionality of music. I also consider the affective labour required of performers to generate a sense of human connection via livestream, and discuss video mosaics, by which musicians separated by time and space perform together in an illusion of copresence. I conclude with a case study of the #CanadaPerforms livestreaming series, a public-private collaboration between the National Arts Centre and Facebook Canada.