Technologia i społeczeństwo: sposoby używania fonografii

There is a prevailing consensus in the literature to relate phonography research to the decreasing aesthetic autonomy of music and distracted listening. However, in an alternative phonographic experience, the same technology can serve as a tool for deep listening, revealing different aesthetic effects. In particular, the phonographic experience, revised and updated under different conditions, may even be conducive to the aesthetic autonomy of music and the implementation of the strategy of deep or structural listening. Once confronted with each other, the different phonographic experiences reveal the ability to update the at times opposing aesthetic categories and ontological constructions. This possibility to shape the phonographic experience in different ways, depending on its context, makes us rethink the common belief in the determining nature of the sound recording technology and recognise other – social, cultural and economic – factors that can have an effect on how phonography is used. This approach leads to an interactive model of the relationship between technology and cultural practices.