팝핑, 사이버 소닉 - 사이버 세계에서의 음악 공간

Abstract

Along with the development of new media, the structure of music production/reproduction has hugely renovated and the way of musical appropriation has rapidly reorganized as well. Especially, the birth of new musical space that transcends boundaries of reality and virtuality breaks the traditional notion of music such as musical category, genre and form; thus, it demands a new frame of interpretation. In terms of space, which implies the presence and the existence, music is instantaneous and intangible. In that sense, the musical media −from the invention of notation to the disc− have played a significant role in securing musical substance, based on the premise that musical experience could be represented in “present space and time(i.e. here and now)”: Visualization of music through notation and auditorial preservation of music through recording exemplify this. However, due to the digital revolution through computer technology and internet, the boundary of the real and the virtual has become ambiguous, thus the premise −the possibility of representation of present space and time of music− is, in strict sense, now hard to apply. Relation of reality, virtual reality and real virtuality is tangled in complicated and multi-dimensional ways, and musical practices are also reorganized into complicated forms. Nonetheless, the current academic discussions seem to only give an emphasis on the economic or legal issues (for example, digital consumption or copyright) in cyberspace. This paper defines the music as a whole sensual experience, distinguishing it from the traditional and restrictive definitions such as “music as a time art” or “music as an auditive art”. First, this paper focuses on the “spatial turn” discussion in socio-cultural theories from the late 1980’s, in which the concept of space changed from a geographical/ physical dimension to a cultural one. This conceptual turn is explored in forming - and changing-process of the concept of musical space. Then, the relation of musical time and space is discussed in terms of transition of musical media(notation, recording, and audio-visual media). Critically reviewing this medial transformation, this paper investigates how the musical practices in cyberspace are constructed.