Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology by Petrina Foti

Author:Petrina Foti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Kluck expresses a certain level of adaptability on the collection level to changes and incorporations of new technologies. This curatorial expertise is exhibited vividly with the accession of Herbie Hancock’s synthesizer and computerized musical instruments.35 Multi-award winning American jazz musician and composer Hancock might arguably be most famous for his 1983 mainstream hit “Rockit” and its music video featuring automatons. The computerized instruments acquired by the Music Collection were used by Hancock during this time period. Building on the established tradition of collecting new musical technology, Kluck explains that:

It is looking at the technology first of all. This [accession] is mostly artifacts that date from the 1980s, so we are far enough removed from that that we can tell the story about the development of this but also about how it relates to us now. We can look at how these were used. I think that synthesizer, the Yamaha, was actually used on tour. So, it is very different than using it in a recording studio. A much different story there, but, nonetheless, it still demonstrates the three instruments – the synthesizers, the Yamaha and the Fairlight, and then the MemoryMoog – all were used in different ways by Herbie Hancock, some in the studio, some on tour. It also captures his changing style of music, experimenting with different sounds and different things. He was certainly well known as a jazz musician and then branching off into pop and rock music, but using the new tools to do that, rather than using the older instruments, taking advantage of this new technology and turning around and doing something different with it.36

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