Course detail

Music in New Media

FEKT-BPC-HNMAcad. year: 2025/2026

Music and new media - a marriage of convenience? Technological compliance of music - music of machines. Digitality of music and music encoding (from Neum to MP3, possibilities of visual representation). Modularity of music (music as a kit, the impact of mobile technologies). Music as a hypertext (redefinition of terms author - artist - listener). Interactivity of music - changes in the interface (J. Cage, G. Levin, D. Long, T. Dvorak, et al..). Multimediality (music in the context of other media). Music and space - music (in) space / space in music. Aesthetics of music in new media (functional × absolute, authentic × eclectic, high × low). Works of art in the age of digital reproducibility. Mobility of music - metamorphosis of memory. Materialization of sound - music as a physical object.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.

Department

Hudební fakulta (HF JAMU)

Entry knowledge

The knowledge of basic concepts of musical acoustics, tempo, expression and dynamic signs, and musical instruments tuning is required as well as musical intervals, scales and modes, chords and basic harmonic connections, and timbres.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Evaluation of study results follows Rules for Studies and Examinations of BUT and Dean's Regulation to the Rules for Studies and Examinations of BUT. The credit is awarded for a summary of 5 mandatory texts. Up to 50 points is given for writing an essay and another 50 points for final oral examination. The exam is aimed at knowledge in area of using music in new media according to syllabus of the subject.
Forms of the checked instructions are specified by a regulation issued by the guarantee of the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with music in new media and define the basic concepts of this issue.
The student will be able to:
- describe the technological conditionality of music, its digitality and modularity,
- define the concepts of interactivity and multimediality,
- discuss issues such as hypertext, music and space, etc.,
- express basic problems of aesthetics in music in new media,
- describe musical works of art in the age of digital reproducibility.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

FLAŠAR, Martin - HORÁKOVÁ, Jana - MACEK, Petr et al. Umění a nová média. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011. 188 s. Neuveden. ISBN 978-80-210-5639-8. Kap. Hudba v kontextu multimédií (CS)
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Otázka techniky. In Věda, technika a zamyšlení. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2004. (CS)
Manovich, L. The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0262632553 (EN)
Sexton, J. Music, sound and multimedia:from the live to the virtual. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0748625345 (EN)
XENAKIS, Iannis. Poznámky o "elektronickém gestu". In Manifesty pohyblivého obrazu: barevná hudba. Vydání první. Olomouc: Pastiche Filmz o.s., 2010. s. 87-92, 6 s. Edice PAF. ISBN 978-80-904515-4-4. (CS)

Recommended reading

Flašar, Martin - Horáková, Jana - Macek, Petr et al. Umění a nová média. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011. 188 s. Neuveden. ISBN 978-80-210-5639-8. (CS)
Jordan, K., Packer, R. Multimedia: from Wagner to virtual reality. New York : W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 978-0393323757 (EN)
Miller, P.D. Sound unbound: sampling digital music and culture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2008. ISBN 978-0262633635 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-AUD Bachelor's

    specialization AUDB-ZVUK , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

8 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.

Project

18 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.