1. Musicologists who certainly can be included in the new materialist generation are:
The most explicit and as far as I know only case of fieldwork-new materialist-musicology is Milla Tiainen's "Corporeal Voices, Sexual Differentiations: New Materialist Perspectives on Music, Singing and Subjectivity" (2007). (Abstract here, if you don't have full-text access through your library contact me).
Looking back in time, we see that the famous 94 essays on mind/body and on lesbian musicology of Suzanne Cusick are groundbreaking new materialisms at full force.
A crafty musicologist practitioner is Björn Schmelzer and his sound-assemblage Graindelavoix. It mixes early music in modern assemblage. Yet more then merely experimental or anything goes. Historically informed performance practice, or h.i.p. does not r.i.p. In fact, it's mostly alive when you consider the material factual encounter as the reactualization of history. history-in-pratice is the only reality of life. He does away with the cleanish English chant tradition early music singing style, and replaces it with real voice, personal, affective voice.(Listen to examples here and here)
2. From the wider feminist/theory/life-sphere these could be of interest
Claire Colebrook at the symposium 'What is the matter with materialism' spoke of the hyper-hypo affecftive disorder, and it fascinates me. The lecture is online, watch it here. Another one of her on Deleuze and cultural theory can be found here.
One of my personal favorites is Moira Gatens. In Imaginary Bodies (1996) she combines Spinoza, ethics, to create new imaginaries, feminist crafty generation of bodies.
Her lecture on 'Truth in Fiction' can be watched online lecture right here
Donna Haraway
Watch her lecture on natureculture's, multispecies worldings and the cat's cradle metaphor right here
The following is on dogs, companion-specicism, etc. (go to 8:22 for a quick impression of the funny dog-worlding) "The meeting of the American Association of Lap Dogs", lovely.
Very productive would also be to read of Haraway's first chapter of When species meet, and her 1988 essay "Situated Knowledges" (full pdf version). It introduces the 'material-semiotic' and says lots of very important stuff on limits of bodies, body-machine-apparatuses, and the redefinition of knowledge production.
(More online video lectures of the Utrecht University's Centre of the Humanities can be found on the video archive at www.uu.nl/cfh . Especially recommended are Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Noam Chomsky)
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