Finnskogarna X3: Re-Mediatizing Carl Jularbo Through Audiovisual Performance

Old Grooves in New Machines

Abstract

This paper presents FinnskogarnaX3, an ongoing artistic research project exploring groove, timing, and rhythm in the recorded legacy of Carl "Calle" Jularbo (1893-1966), arguably Sweden's most recorded musician. Drawing on Bolter and Grusin's remediation and on mediaization as developed by Lundberg, Malm and Ronström, the paper proposes re-mediatization: a term playing on the double sense of the prefix "re-" (again and back) to describe how older musical values are reactivated within an already mediatized present. Combining archival recordings of "Livet i Finnskogarna" with electronic accordions and audio/video-synthesizers, FinnskogarnaX3 lets tempo maps derived from Jularbo's playing drive electronic sound and image in live performance.