Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B010VTSHN6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 564 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise. Sound oriented means a practice that takes place in the presence of sound. The power of algorithmic methods amplify the capabilities of music technology. It presents a guidebook: a tour of facts, history, commentary, opinions, and pointers to interesting ideas and new possibilities to consider and explore.. The theory consists of a framework of concepts and a vocabulary of terms describing musical materials, their transformation, and their organization. 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. 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. Envelope and waveform undulations on all time scales interweave to generate form. Multiscale means an approach that takes into account the perceptual and physical reality of multiple, interacting time scales-each of which can be composed. Central to this discourse is the notion of narrative structure in composition-how sounds are born, interact, transform, and die. Taken together, these constitut
He builds a thousand bridges between different approaches to attributes like pitch, rhythm, time scales, and even sonic narratives in order to help us to understand present music practices." -Horacio Vaggione, composer, Professor Emeritus, the University of Paris VIII"A rich and enjoyable survey for the computer musician, ranging from the objects of compositional manipulation to the performative aspects of the shaping of sensory experience. Aside from the joy of crafting pure sound at many structural levels, it provokes new organizational ideas in reaction to theory."--Music and Letters. What a pleasure to read a book which explains to us all the foundations of electronic music, all of its researchs, its true history, etcI hope that the book is going to be translated in French, because the French music situation needs it abs
He co-founded the International Computer Music Association and served as an editor/associate editor of Computer Music Journal for 23 years. Curtis Roads is an award-winning composer and researcher who teaches electronic music composition at the University of California, Santa Barbar
Definitive book on a new aesthetic of electronic music Dr. Roads, who teaches computer music research, obviously knows his stuff. The book is a well-written discussion of a new aesthetic of electronic music. It could become THE Text Book on the Subject. Text is written at college-level comprehension.. This book is a survey of aesthetics and techniques used This book is a survey of aesthetics and techniques used in electronic music of all sorts. It's very academic and dry, but very thorough and informative.. A worthy contribution to the ways in which we hear, perceive, and talk about sound Overall, an excellent, clear, concise discussion of the aesthetic elements that drive most (but not all) manifestations of the use of electronic equipment to generate sounds in ways that are intended to be received as "art." Professor Roads tries to cover a lot of ground here: the history of the practices, audio examples (from the companion website) to hear what he is discussing