Gesture and miniaturization: the phonographic album as a memory artifact in musicking

• Autor(a) principal: Dinola, Sabrina
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Abreu , Regina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Per Musi
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/34826
• topic: Phonographic album; Memory; 'To music'; Gesture; Minimization; Álbum fonográfico; Memória; 'Musicar'; Gesto; Miniaturização; Álbum fonográfico; Memoria; 'Musicar'; Gesto; Miniaturización

Inspired by Gregory Bateson’s works, musicologist Christopher Small coined the term musicking to express the central notion of his approach to the communicational and performative essence of music making. In this article, such notion and approach are applied to the sociocultural production /circulation of musical recordings in the specific format of phonographic albums. We consider these – from their conception and production to their being played and listened to – as collective gestures which resonate and ritualize social relations and cultural meanings, we suggest a parallel between the phonographic performance with that of photography as a miniaturization procedure, as elaborated by Walter Benjamin. To observe the memory effects of this way of making music, we follow some aspects of the reports and activities of an agent whose formation and musicality started with the album – the musician, producer, record collector and researcher Charles Gavin.