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Monty Adkins

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Dec 29, 2025, 4:37:06 AM (4 days ago) 12/29/25
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Dear List

I am pleased to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music.


This is co-edited by Prof Joran Rudi (as part of his Leverhulme Professorship at the University of Huddersfield).

Many thanks and Happy New Year

Monty

Prof Monty Adkins MA Hons (Cantab), PhD, FHEA, CMgr MCMI

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Sebastian Lexer

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Dec 30, 2025, 9:31:11 AM (3 days ago) 12/30/25
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Hi, congratulations on the book!
Shame that any Routledge publications have become such unattainable items.
When will Academics accept that the balance between a reputable publisher and making their work available for actual reads has shifted.
I am sure no-one involved here has actually received moneys in any scale what they would have deserved for their work, but hidden behind £184 for the book and £38 for a digital copy(?!) this won’t get on many hands.

Hope for you that I am wrong,

All best,
Sebastian

On 29 Dec 2025, at 9:36 am, 'Monty Adkins' via CEC-Conference <cec-con...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Dear List

I am pleased to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music.


This is co-edited by Prof Joran Rudi (as part of his Leverhulme Professorship at the University of Huddersfield).

Many thanks and Happy New Year

Monty

Prof Monty Adkins MA Hons (Cantab), PhD, FHEA, CMgr MCMI
Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation
The University of Huddersfield, Queensgate,  Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
T: 07476 413298 | E: m.ad...@hud.ac.ukW: 

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Monty Adkins

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Dec 30, 2025, 10:37:17 AM (3 days ago) 12/30/25
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Dear Sebastian

I get where you are coming from.

Where possible I do try and also ensure where possible there are open access versions further down the line, or publish with Huddersfield University Press which does both a well-priced paperback and free copy from the initial date of publication as here:

Music Beyond Airports

Best wishes

Monty


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Kevin Austin

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Dec 30, 2025, 2:34:20 PM (2 days ago) 12/30/25
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Congratulations everywhere.

I hope this email finds you well.

from my understanding, Sebastian brings forth ‘lurking in the shadows’ [so to speak], since the 1960s/70s, with a first clear articulation with the introduction of the [hypermedia] HyperCard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard , a development dreamt of by human beings for millennia.

Historically, a first step [after the invention of writing], was the development of collections, aka libraries. Libraries brought together information, and it was realized that no library could contain all information, that it would be out of date immediately, and have restricted access. [This doesn’t include the censoring features of selection of information held.]

Moveable-type printing worked on the restriction of distribution issue, however numerous bottlenecks would remain for several centuries. Flat and relational databases began to erode fixed media primacy. Library Sciences ’transforming’ [sic] into 'Information Studies’. Internet, web, individual access . . . currency . . 

Copyright holders and government put other locks on access to and the distribution of information. A poorly forecast, but completely logical consequence is well-known today; if the information is not freely available, its future is quite likely doomed. An anecdotal version of this is that when Frank Zappa died, his estate severely restricted free access to his archives. . . . Frank who?

I have recently been in conversation with three [graduates] who do not own books. Over the past two years I have voided my 800+ book library — not my scores, they are next, as I ‘downsize’ my physical [paper] holdings. I kept about three-dozen books for sentimental value, and I will reduce my collection of scores by 70%, almost all of the PD scores, available from IMSLP https://imslp.org/

Regarding books on sound / music, I lost interest a couple of decades ago. Books on visual arts have images, books on sound / music are silent.

A possibly mapping of the cultural / sociological / financial aspect of the matters Sebastian writes about, can be interpreted in terms of the ’negative’ impacts, specifically, what parts of the information are now locked? [See Zappa above.]

My peaking into a hypothetical crystal ball is that even the most tightly sealed collections, if they have been digitized, will turn up somewhere accessible to AI sources in the not distant future. Zappa scores are probably hard to come by, but enormous amounts of Stockie can be found.

I have given up researching specific information from paper sources. Even the free CHATgpt provides useable basic research [sorted and organized], that has saved me hours [and hours] of grunt work. And AI has barely got a foothold in education / research.

I do not lament the demise of ancient forms of information gathering and distribution. It is those under 40 who will live to experience their genetics in their medical files — personalized health care. Similarly, as I have experienced the start of information being considered as contextual relationships rather than ‘objects’.

Well Sebastian, I see no advantages to going back to fixed-media presentations of information. Currently, the Concordia University archive is continuing the digitization of my archiving my public presentations dating back into the early 1970s, about a dozen boxes of programs, notes, paper communications and a large box of 3 1/2” floppies.

There are also about 3500 ’tape’ pieces, mostly from about 1980 to the late 1990s. Some 700+ have been transferred and have been available for more than 15 years https://econtact.ca/10_x/index.html .

The original design of eContact! had included hyperlinking all key terms in all articles, and allowing the articles to exist in a ‘dynamic’ format, where the texts could be corrected / changed / discussed, somewhat similar to an ideal Wikipedia.

Again, my [cracked] crystal ball sees a [cosmic] merging of Wikipedia and AI, somewhat similar to Google’s transformation into a question answering spot rather than simply a catalog. [I think of university Reference Librarians.]

There is more . . . Happy New Year.

Be well

Kevin

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