Electroacoustic Music

Author : Adrian Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317407938
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sonic Art written by Adrian Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an active composer, performer and educator, Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition provides a clear and informative introduction to the compositional techniques behind electroacoustic music. It brings together theory, aesthetics, context and practical applications to allow students to start thinking about sound creatively, and gives them the tools to compose meaningful sonic art works. In addition to explaining the techniques and philosophies of sonic art, the book examines over forty composers and their works, introducing the history and context of notable pieces, and includes chapters on how to present compositions professionally, in performance and online. The book is supported by an online software toolkit which enables readers to start creating their own compositions. Encouraging a ‘hands on’ approach to working with sound, Sonic Art is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in electroacoustic music and crafting art from sounds.

Author : Peter Elsea
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0895797410
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art and Technique of Electroacoustic Music written by Peter Elsea and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electroacoustic music is now in the mainstream of music, pervading all styles from the avant-garde to pop. Even classical works are routinely scored on a computer and a synthesized demo is a powerful tool for previewing a piece. The fundamental skills of electroacoustic composition are now as essential to a music student as ear training and counterpoint. The Art and Technique of Electroacoustic Music provides a detailed approach those fundamental skills. In this book Peter Elsea explores the topic from the fundamentals of acoustics through the basics of recording, composition with the tools of music concreté, and music production with MIDI instruments, softsynths and digital audio Workstations. Later sections of the book cover synthesis in depth and introduce high powered computer composition languages including Csound, ChucK, and Max/MSP. A final section presents the challenges and techniques of live performance. This book can be used as a text for undergraduate courses and also as a guide for self-learning.

Author : Simon Emmerson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349184926
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Electroacoustic Music written by Simon Emmerson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-12-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Curtis Roads
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195373243
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composing Electronic Music written by Curtis Roads and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise. Similarly, time occurs not merely as a fixed duration subdivided by ratios, but as a plastic medium that can be generated, modulated, reversed, warped, scrambled, and granulated. Envelope and waveform undulations on all time scales interweave to generate form. The power of algorithmic methods amplify the capabilities of music technology. Taken together, these constitute game-changing possibilities. This convergence of technical and aesthetic trends prompts the need for a new text focused on the opportunities of a sound oriented, multiscale approach to composition of electronic music. Sound oriented means a practice that takes place in the presence of sound. Multiscale means an approach that takes into account the perceptual and physical reality of multiple, interacting time scales-each of which can be composed. After more than a century of research and development, now is an appropriate moment to step back and reevaluate all that has changed under the ground of artistic practice. Composing Electronic Music outlines a new theory of composition based on the toolkit of electronic music techniques. The theory consists of a framework of concepts and a vocabulary of terms describing musical materials, their transformation, and their organization. Central to this discourse is the notion of narrative structure in composition-how sounds are born, interact, transform, and die. It presents a guidebook: a tour of facts, history, commentary, opinions, and pointers to interesting ideas and new possibilities to consider and explore.

Author : Mary Simoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135503354
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analytical Methods of Electroacoustic Music written by Mary Simoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing extensive artwork serving as demonstration, as well as a DVD with sound and video clips, this collection of essays on electroacoustic music explores the creative possibilities to be found in various forms of musical analysis. Taking pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre as the four basic elements of music, the authors discuss electroacoustic works and examine: * the applications of neumes * contemporary staff notation * sound orchestra and score files * time-domain representations * spectrograms. Taking into consideration both the positive aspects (preservation of the abstract) and negative aspects (creative limitation) of these analytical methods, the authors have created a useful resource for students of electroacoustic music.

Author : Thomas Licata
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031307688X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electroacoustic Music written by Thomas Licata and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electroacoustic music, a flourishing medium for over half a century, remains today, in a wide array of technological forms, one of the major areas of creative activity in music. However, it has long been overlooked in theoretical studies—possibly in part because it does away with traditional scores and notation. In this landmark collection, a group of distinguished composers and theorists who have actively worked in the field present detailed analyses of important electroacoustic works while also demonstrating some recent approaches to the analysis of the music of this medium. Included here are discussions of such significant works as Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (1955/56), Iannis Xenakis' Diamorphoses (1957), and Jean-Claude Risset's Contours (1982). Overall, the collection aims to elucidate the sonic design of each of the electroacoustic music works under investigation, using its best examples as a lens through which to examine an unduly neglected genre. Demonstrating recent techniques in the analysis of electroacoustic music, the volume also considers various compositional approaches as well as computer applications that have become an irreplaceable tool in the composing of this music. So little has been written about this 20th-century art form that Electroacoustic Music: Analytical Perspectives is at once a fresh, bold step forward in musicology and analysis.

Author : Simon Emmerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107118328
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis written by Simon Emmerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art overview of the analysis of electroacoustic music, which includes discussions of a wide range of works.

Author : Nicholas Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521868610
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music written by Nicholas Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contributory volume covering the history and current scene of electronic music.

Author : Samuel Pellman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Creation of Electroacoustic Music written by Samuel Pellman and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to be accessible to students relatively inexperienced with electronic musical technology, while also sufficiently detailed for technical and musical achievement. Furthermore, it stresses the notion that, despite all the attention given to technique, the principal goal is musical expression.

Author : Nick Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108548474
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music written by Nick Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide range of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements such as musique concrète and elektronische Musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance music and electronica. The first edition of this book won the 2009 Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize as it brought together researchers at the forefront of the sonic explorations empowered by electronic technology to provide accessible and insightful overviews of core topics and uncover some hitherto less publicised corners of worldwide movements. This updated and expanded second edition includes four entirely new chapters, as well as new original statements from globally renowned artists of the electronic music scene, and celebrates a diverse array of technologies, practices and music.