The Fifth DOCAM Summit took place March 4-5, 2010, at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in collaboration with Hexagram UQAM. The conference was held at the Agora du Coeur des Sciences.
Ricardo Dal Farra, Chair of Concordia's Music Department delivered a presentation entitled
"Is it possible to change the way we will remember it? A journey between ethical concerns and practical strategies of preservation."Dal Farra works with the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection, which is documented and preserved at the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The collection represents a major breakthrough in accessing large amounts of previously unavailable music. The project has also been raising complex questions regarding such diverse issues as: audio restoration, archival procedures, database definitions, cultural property, preservation strategies, cultural memory and effects on artistic practices, as well as ethical and social concerns.
Jacques Attali wrote "With
music is born power and its opposite: subversion [...] All music, any
organization of sounds is then a tool for the creation or
consolidation of a community."
According to Dal Farra,
"Even if the western society is often considered a visual-based
culture, sound-based art is in the core of this society, too.
Paraphrasing Attali, art is a tool for the creation or consolidation
of a community. Thus, Music has a role in defining our
future."
Watch a
video of Dal Farra's presentation at the
DOCAM website.
You can also watch a
video of the Question Period from the second day of the conference, which features the following speakers:
Harrison W. Inefuku (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Ricardo Dal Farra (Concordia University, Montréal)
Daisy Abbott (Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art)
Simon-Pierre Gourd (École des médias, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Will Straw (McGill University)
