This episode features Mike D’Errico (He/Him), a musician and Assistant Professor of Music and Computer Science as well as the Director of Music Technology & Composition at Albright College. He also wrote the book Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production, released in January of 2022. We met at a show that we both played at UCLA and I’ve since long been interested in his work that weaves the cultural and political study of music technology with their effects on music making and music scenes more generally. While I’m not myself an academic, I’ve always been keen on perspectives about chiptune that integrate the chiptune scene with other genres and scenes that also deal heavily with technology, and Mike D’Errico’s work does so quite well.
References:
Daedalus Controllerism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spa4emMwhOM
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture by Philip Auslander - https://www.routledge.com/Liveness-Performance-in-a-Mediatized-Culture/Auslander/p/book/9780367468170
Playing with Something that Runs by Mark J. Butler - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/playing-with-something-that-runs-9780195393620
Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production by Mike D’Errico - https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/push-9780190943318?cc=gb&lang=en
Music Used:
Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme
The Attic Bits - Command Line Fail