Emmerson The Language Electroacoustic Music

1. Auflage 1986
ISBN: 978-1-349-18492-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten, eBook

Since the inception of electroacoustic music in 1948, much has been written about technical developments. This book is one of the first to examine aesthetic issues central to this rapidly developing genre. It brings together composers from leading academic departments and studios in Britain, the United States, Canada and Paris with a wide range of approaches and opinions, resulting in a study which is likely to have a marked impact on current debates on the future of electroacoustic music. The book is divided into three sections. The first, Culture and Language, considers the relationship between music and the listener's perception and expectation. Materials and Lanugage looks at the types of materials available to composers and the way in which the internal structure of the sound can have implications for the overall structure of a piece. The final section, The Influence of New Technology, considers the relationship between computer systems and the music they are helping to create.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emmerson, Simon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors Introduction; S. Emmerson Technology and the Composer; P. Boulez MATERIALS AND LANGUAGE The Relation of Language to Materials; S. Emmerson Sound Symbols and Landscapes; T. Wishart Spectro-morphology and Structuring Processes; D. Smalley PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE At the Threshold of an Aesthetic; D. Keane Language and Resources: A New Paradox; B. Pennycook THE INFLUENCE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY Computer Music: Some Aesthetic Considerations; M. McNabb Computer Music Language Design and the Composing Process; B. Truax The Mirror of Ambiguity; J. Harvey A Stubborn Search for Artistic Unity; T. Machover Notes Selected Bibliography List of Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

PIERRE BOULEZ Director of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris
JONATHAN HARVEY Professor of Music, Sussex University
DAVID KEANE Professor of Music, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
TOD MACHOVER Assistant Professor of The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MICHAEL McNABB Composer working at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University
BRUCE PENNYCOOK Assistant Professor of Music, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
DENIS SMALLEY Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio, University of East Anglia
BARRY TRUAX Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
TREVOR WISHART Freelance Composer based in York, UK