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Creative Uses of Low Tech in Bamako Recording Studios (Mali)

Emmanuelle Olivier
Amandine Pras
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In Mali, the introduction of 3G cellular networks in 2010, alongside growing access to affordable digital audio technologies throughout the 2010s, has transformed local music industries and led a sharp increase in the number of recording studios based on Digital Audio Workstations (DAW). Using an ethnography of Bamako DAW studios, this paper establishes a theoretical framework and a methodology to remap music production studies beyond the limits of a Northern-centric narrative. This framework discusses the notions of high, low and alt tech, and their interconnexions with lofi and hifi within the 2010s’ recording studio literature. We complement ethnographic methods with an indexation of DAW events to analyze synchronized video and audio recordings, computer screen captures, and dialog translations of complete recording sessions. Drawing upon the detailed description of a tradi-trap production, this paper contrasts local discourses and uses of globalized technologies to challenge the notion of low tech in Bamako studios and to highlight the constraints and capabilities of DAW practitioners.
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hal-04381648 , version 1 (09-01-2024)

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Emmanuelle Olivier, Amandine Pras. Creative Uses of Low Tech in Bamako Recording Studios (Mali). Journal of New Music Research, 2023, 51 (2-3), pp.225-242. ⟨10.1080/09298215.2023.2201242⟩. ⟨hal-04381648⟩

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