Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Computer Sciences, Information Science
Abstract
We describe the design and deployment of the first system ever to dynamically track and publish records of folk music playing. TuneTracker is a software system that has been, at time of writing, deployed at a pub in Dublin, Ireland for five months. It captures, stores, and posts the names of tunes played in Irish traditional music sessions on a public website. This paper makes two contributions: (1) drawing from a two year ethnographic study of trad musicians, it details the design and development of a system to track and publish traditional musicians’ practices while respecting the ethos of tradition, and (2) it presents a discussion of professional musicians’ reactions to having their music practices surveilled. This latter fieldwork revealed divergent viewpoints on the effect that TuneTracker would have on local sessions and the process of tradition.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598559
Recommended Citation
Duggan, B. & Su, N. (2014). TuneTracker: Tensions in the Surveillance of Traditional Music. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems June 21st - 25th. Vancouver, BC, Canada. doi:10.1145/2598510.2598559
Publication Details
ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2014 June 21st - 25th Vancouver, BC, Canada