Gabry-Thienpont S. auteur aut IRD Puig Nicolas auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access The emergence of electricity made it possible to physically fix and to reproduce music. However, it also led to new perspectives in composition, which developed in tandem with the concurrent emergence of sound reproduction techniques and the possibilities presented by sound reinforcement. New instruments appeared releasing new creative dynamics, and electrification in general contributed to the emergence of novel musical compositions that have become part of the cultural history of the Mediterranean basin and the Arab world. What does sound electrification do to music, its status and its production? How is sound reinforcement technology used, and to what ends? What does the circulation of music and its economy tell us of the Mediterranean and Arab world? Does this region embody only one single geographical, cultural, and historical characteristic? The introduction to this special issue aims to intertwine the questions of musical composition and writing with those of sound electrification in order to examine the notion of the aesthetics of electrification as a unifying principle in the production of music in this region specialized MEDITERRANEE ITALIE ROME ALGERIE MAROC EGYPTE LE CAIRE ARMENIE LIBAN BEYROUTH GRECE ATHENES MALI 112MUSIC Anagnostou P. ed. edt IRD Gabry-Thienpont S. ed. edt IRD Puig Nicolas ed. edt IRD 26 19-34 2025 3062-5920 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010096156 10.4000/15ef3 3062-5920 [F A010096155] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010096156 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2026-01/010096156.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2026-01-13 2026-01-16 fdi:010096156 fre