The tekhnē journal is an online periodical which provides background information and reflection on thematics linked to sound, technology, and creative usership. Each of the six partners involved with the tekhnē collaborative project will take the lead in one of the issues, highlighting facets of the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art, such as diversity and access to the stages, ableism, education and participation, DIY cultures, and transparency and open access to the internet.
These Abilities
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This fourth issue of the tekhnē online journal emerges from the Technology, Music and Ableism strand of the project, led by OUT.RA. Each of the contributions gathered here approaches the meeting of music and disability from different angles: collective improvisation, personal narrative, instrument design, listening practices, and advocacy for embodied differences as a lived and self-determined experience and identity. What runs through these texts is not a single stance on disability, but an insistence that – as music is a space where cultural norms can be challenged, reconfigured, and reimagined – it can be recognized as a site of knowledge, artistry, and form.
Mutating Traditions
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The third issue of tekhnē journal explores a new thematic strand by CTM Festival, titled Resynthesising the Traditional, which aims to cultivate artistic practice, research, and exchange on how to critically engage with sonic/artistic heritage, folklore, situated knowledge, customs, contexts, technologies, and other aspects of “the traditional.” Confronting conservative views of tradition as something frozen, solidified, and generally untouchable, the featured articles all explore (re)connection to past aesthetics and forms within diverse political contexts, and echo in various ways how technologies are bound into their ongoing transformation.
Materia Prima
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The second issue of the tekhnē online journal compiles articles by artists interested in the materiality of media and sound reproduction technologies. Their reflections are interspersed between the sound phenomenon and its restitution. They make tangible the hidden infrastructure and politics of the raw material resources on which our digital culture depends and show us how this digitization impacts planetary and ecological systems. This second issue is compiled by GMEA.
Why DIY?
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The first issue of the tekhnē online journal outlines the field of DIY with its practices, cultures and politics. A central observation of the tekhne project is that technological changes often go hand in hand with social changes, such as the emergence of electronic instruments that became musical instruments and changed not only who made the music, but also what we consider music to be. This first issue is compiled by Q-O2.
