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The title slide from my presentation yesterday.
(The wonders of procrastination.)
One milestone down.
I gave the public presentation of my thesis work yesterday, in a marathon day of media studies presentations. I had to dramatically truncate my stuff to fit into the 20 minutes allotted, so there is a lot of content missing that will eventually be in the thesis, but this presentation is one slice out of my work that I think is more readily accessible to a general audience.
The basic theme I focus on here is the historical overlap and distinction between “recording” and “performance,” using E.S. Votey’s Pianola as a case study.
If you know the details of how pianolas and reproducing pianos work, I apologize for totally mangling their histories together—for the sake of time, I had to make some elisions and cuts—but I hope that things got more clarified in the Q+A at the end of the video.
It’s 40 minutes long, so, um, enjoy?
