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# A Manifesto For Music Technologists [Read & Sign]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/a-manifesto-for-music-technologists-read-sign/
- Published: 2014-05-14T11:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-05-14T11:58:00.000Z
- Description: "Music technologies create possible futures and offer new ways to inhabit the present and past. Their changes presage changes in culture, signaling trends yet to come. They are thus sites. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/05/a-manifesto-for-music-technologists-read-sign.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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"Music technologies create possible futures and offer new ways to inhabit the present and past. Their changes presage changes in culture, signaling trends yet to come. They are thus sites of struggles over money, membership, power, and prestige."

Last month, 21 of music techs most respected theorists came together at the Microsoft Research New England for a symposium called “What Is Music Technology For?” held in conjunction with the Music Tech Fest.

Motivated by "a passion for music, a fascination with technology and culture, and a concern for how music technology is now developing" debated and developed a set of shared principles about the future of music technology.

"Music technologies make worlds. Let us make better worlds. Let music technology do good, serve public interest, foster belonging, justice, collaboration and sharing, enable greater access to positive musical experiences and personal connections, and create durable objects and practices."

The symposium was organized by [Nancy Baym](http://nancybaym.com/?ref=hypebot.com), Microsoft Research, and[ Jonathan Sterne](http://sterneworks.org/?ref=hypebot.com), McGill University. The participants also included:

[Georgina Born](http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/about/people/academic-staff/university-lecturers-and-college-fellows/georgina-born/?ref=hypebot.com), University of Oxford  
[Andrew Dubber](http://andrewdubber.com/?ref=hypebot.com), Birmingham City University  
[Blake Durham](http://blakedurham.wordpress.com/?ref=hypebot.com), University of Oxford  
[Tarleton Gillespie](http://www.tarletongillespie.org/index.html?ref=hypebot.com), Cornell University  
[Mack Hagood](http://www.musictechifesto.org/www.mactrasound.com?ref=hypebot.com), Miami University  
[Jessa Lingel](http://jessalingel.tumblr.com/?ref=hypebot.com), Microsoft Research  
[Deirdre Loughridge](http://spookyandthemetronome.wordpress.com/about/?ref=hypebot.com), University of California – Berkeley  
[Josh McDermott](http://web.mit.edu/jhm/www/?ref=hypebot.com), Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
[Michela Magas](http://stromatolite.com/?ref=hypebot.com), Stromatolite, Founder Music Tech Fest  
[Jeremy Morris](https://commarts.wisc.edu/people/jwmorris2?ref=hypebot.com), University of Wisconsin  
[Bryan Pardo](http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~pardo/?ref=hypebot.com), Northwestern University.  
[Trevor Pinch](http://sts.cornell.edu/people/tjp2.cfm?ref=hypebot.com), Cornell University  
[Norbert Schnell](http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/Norbert%5FSchnell?ref=hypebot.com), Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique  
[Nick Seaver](http://www.nickseaver.net/?ref=hypebot.com), University of California – Irvine  
[Victoria Simon](http://media.mcgill.ca/en/content/victoria-simon-music-software-arbiters-audio-culture?ref=hypebot.com), McGill University  
[Aram Sinnreich](http://aram.sinnreich.com/?ref=hypebot.com), Rutgers University  
[Matt Stahl](http://www.fims.uwo.ca/peopleDirectory/faculty/faculty%5Fall/faculty%5Fall%5Fprofile.htm?PeopleId=121733&ref=hypebot.com), University of Western Ontario  
[Aaron Trammell](http://aarontrammell.com/?ref=hypebot.com), Rutgers University

[Annette Markham](http://www.markham.internetinquiry.org/?ref=hypebot.com), Aarhus University, served as facilitator.

Read, and if you agree, sign the [Manifesto For Music Technologists](http://www.musictechifesto.org/?ref=hypebot.com).

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