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In the current hodge-podge selection of entertainment, art and culture, where most cultural consumables are easily accessible in online services and archives, the distinctions between popular and marginal are becoming more blurred in taste cultures and audiovisual expression. This anthology goes to the heart of these themes through the common denominator of music, teasing out the connections between popular music and avant-garde composition as well as their relationships to current and past aesthetics and technological practices. It is also a celebration of professor John Richardson’s outstanding work in the fields of musicology and audiovisual research.

Editors: Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, Tuomas Auvinen, Freya Jarman and James Deaville.

Table of contents

• Introduction – Anna-Elena Pääkkölä, Tuomas Auvinen, Freya Jarman, James Deaville

Part 1: Everyday Avant-Garde

• A journey into a spatial fold: sonic environmentality, cut-up and folded-in? – Birgit Abels

• You can’t get the feeling back: the sounds of Twin Peaks: The Return between film and television – Mathias Bonde Korsgaard

• Moses and Akhnaten: operatic monotheisms – Erik Steinskog

Part 2: Pop Art, ArtPop

• Caught between narrative and fiction: Eminem’s Stan – Serge Lacasse

• The joke that went far: Eurovision “ice-funk” aesthetics during COVID-19 lockdown in Da∂i Freyr’s Think About Things – Anna-Elena Pääkkölä and Þorbjörg Daphne Hall

• Conveying pain and mental precarity through pop art: agentic performance in Lady Gaga’s 911 – Hanna-Mari Riihimäki

• Lupin and the white gaze: an audiovisual reading of a modernised classic – Kaapo Huttunen and Sanna Qvick

Part 3: Futuristic and Retro Technologies

• Relationships of music technology, sound, and the human body: a case study on Imogen Heap’s "MiMu Gloves” YouTube videos – Tuomas Auvinen

• From modified human voices to artificial intelligence vocalists: on new strategies in composing vocal works – Petri Kuljuntausta

• Radiophonic mediation of sonic remembering of the eldest – Helmi Järviluoma and Heikki Uimonen