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Upbeat and quirky, with a bit of a build: Interpretive repertoires in creative music search

Inskip, C; MacFarlane, A; Rafferty, P; (2010) Upbeat and quirky, with a bit of a build: Interpretive repertoires in creative music search. Presented at: 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht, Netherlands. Green open access

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Abstract

Pre-existing commercial music is widely used to accompany moving images in films, TV commercials and computer games. This process is known as music synchronisation. Professionals are employed by rights holders and film makers to perform creative music searches on large catalogues to find appropriate pieces of music for synchronisation. This paper discusses a Discourse Analysis of thirty interview texts related to the process. Coded examples are presented and discussed. Four interpretive repertoires are identified: the Musical Repertoire, the Soundtrack Repertoire, the Business Repertoire and the Cultural Repertoire. These ways of talking about music are adopted by all of the community regardless of their interest as Music Owner or Music User. Music is shown to have multi-variate and sometimes conflicting meanings within this community which are dynamic and negotiated. This is related to a theoretical feedback model of communication and meaning making which proposes that Owners and Users employ their own and shared ways of talking and thinking about music and its context to determine musical meaning. The value to the music information retrieval community is to inform system design from a user information needs perspective.

Type: Conference item (Presentation)
Title: Upbeat and quirky, with a bit of a build: Interpretive repertoires in creative music search
Event: 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010)
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Dates: August 9-13, 2010
ISBN-13: 9789039353813
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. © 2010 International Society for Music Information Retrieval.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1403540
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