AAA - TAC. Acoustical Arts and Artifacts. Technology, Aesthetics, Communication. 5. 2008

The deliberately heard and accepted acoustic productions which form the so-called 'soundscape' undergo continual redefinition by a group of techniques commonly referred to as 'reproduction'. In reality, at our current degree of sound communications, 'production' and 'reproduction' tend to be equivalent. This is the basis of the research for which this journal intends to create various disciplinary vectors, with the prospect of a musicology freed from the fetish of textuality and careful to focus on process, taking the point of view of a 'science of communication', while maintaining a close dialogue with aesthetics. Thus to address historical investigation while highlighting the present also signifies developing a critical program for redefining the repertory. The apparently neutral ideas of acoustic art and artifact facilitates a better understanding of the myriad consequences of the irreversible entrance of every piece of music into the reproduction circuit.