Treatise On Musical Objects

Author : Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967461
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatise on Musical Objects written by Pierre Schaeffer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer’s essay summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translators Christine North and John Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music.

Author : Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265742
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Concrete Music written by Pierre Schaeffer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers a translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.

Author : Harry F. Olson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486317021
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Physics and Engineering written by Harry F. Olson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinarily comprehensive text, requiring no special background, discusses the nature of sound waves, musical instruments, musical notation, acoustic materials, elements of sound reproduction systems, and electronic music. Includes 376 figures.

Author : James A. Steintrager
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002530
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Objects written by James A. Steintrager and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself. Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John Mowitt, Pooja Rangan, Gavin Steingo, James A. Steintrager, Jonathan Sterne, David Toop

Author : Thomas Patteson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288025
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instruments for New Music written by Thomas Patteson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium

Author : Sebastian Virdung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521308305
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musica Getutscht written by Sebastian Virdung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation.

Author : Brian Kane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199347840
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Unseen written by Brian Kane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sound Unseen' explores acousmatic sound - a sound that one hears without seeing its cause. Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of musique concr ete, in his Trait e des objets musicaux, first popularized the term 'acousmatic'. After an introduction, the first chapter provides a thorough exegesis of Schaeffer's theory of acousmatics. It also presents three objections to Schaeffer's theories (myth, phantasmagoria, and ontology) around which the book is structured.

Author : Georgina Born
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520916840
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationalizing Culture written by Georgina Born and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992. Born depicts a major artistic institution trying to maintain its status and legitimacy in an era increasingly dominated by market forces, and in a volatile political and cultural climate. She illuminates the erosion of the legitimacy of art and science in the face of growing commercial and political pressures. By tracing how IRCAM has tried to accomodate these pressures while preserving its autonomy, Born reveals the contradictory effects of institutionalizing an avant-garde. Contrary to those who see postmodernism representing an accord between high and popular culture, Born stresses the continuities between modernism and postmodernism and how postmodernism itself embodies an implicit antagonism toward popular culture.

Author : Michel Chion
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237482X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound written by Michel Chion and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain sounds. He critiques the tenacious tendency to understand sounds in relation to their sources and advocates "acousmatic" listening—listening without visual access to a sound’s cause—to disentangle ourselves from auditory habits and prejudices. Yet sound can no more be reduced to mere perceptual phenomena than encapsulated in the sciences of acoustics and physiology. As Chion reminds us and explores in depth, a wide range of linguistic, sensory, cultural, institutional, and media- and technologically-specific factors interact with and shape sonic experiences. Interrogating these interactions, Chion stimulates us to think about how we might open our ears to new sounds, become more nuanced and informed listeners, and more fully understand the links between how we hear and what we do.

Author : John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783487407319
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Harmony written by John Christopher Pepusch and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: