Returning to Ontology:A Study of Musical Instrument Collections as Archives
The study of Organology that returns to the"noumenon"of objects is to use"objects(musical instruments)"as"literature."Using musical instruments as direct materials,examining the production characteristics from the details of the objects,searching for historical pitch information from the retained usage and maintained vestiges on the instruments,exploring lost production and performance techniques,inferring the user's performance habits,and tracing the life course of the instruments.This process is akin to opening a dusty historical'archive.'This article focuses on the"re-field"investigation of musical instrument collections and curation processes in the museum,combined with the ontological turn in material culture studies,to discuss the discovery of musical instruments themselves from an anthropological perspective.It reflects on anthropocentrism in instrumental research in the context of the interaction between objects(musical instruments)and nature,environment,and humans,to understand the relationship between nature and culture,humans and non-human beings from a holistic perspective.
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