ABSTRACT

This paper provides an in-depth cultural analysis of the album Blue, by Mostly Other People Do the Killing – a detailed, note-for-note recreation of Miles Davis’s jazz classic, Kind of Blue. While the group’s undertaking has been widely regarded as a postmodern deconstruction of genre and history, this paper adopts a new materialist framework to demonstrate how the re-enactment makes perceptible the material contingency of sound and music. Focusing on the processes of emergence, it argues that Blue calls attention to the material-energetic flows that underlie both the production and reception of music. As such, the album might encourage us to rethink the notion of musical works via a materialist model of intensive forces and their immanent capture within musicking assemblages.

摘要

本文对专辑 Blue 进行了深入的文化分析，该专辑由 Mostly Other People Do the Killing 制作——对 Miles Davis 的爵士乐经典作品 Kind of Blue 进行了详细的、逐条记录的再现。虽然该团体的事业被广泛认为是对流派和历史的后现代解构，但本文采用新的唯物主义框架来展示重演如何使声音和音乐的物质偶然性变得可感知。它着眼于出现的过程，认为 Blue 提请人们注意构成音乐制作和接收基础的物质能量流。因此，这张专辑可能会鼓励我们通过密集力量的唯物主义模型及其在音乐组合中的内在捕获来重新思考音乐作品的概念。