Living Electronic Music

Author : Simon Emmerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351217842

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Living Electronic Music by Simon Emmerson Pdf

Drawing on recent ideas that explore new environments and the changing situations of composition and performance, Simon Emmerson provides a significant contribution to the study of contemporary music, bridging history, aesthetics and the ideas behind evolving performance practices. Whether created in a studio or performed on stage, how does electronic music reflect what is live and living? What is it to perform 'live' in the age of the laptop? Many performer-composers draw upon a 'library' of materials, some created beforehand in a studio, some coded 'on the fly', others 'plundered' from the widest possible range of sources. But others refuse to abandon traditionally 'created and structured' electroacoustic work. Lying behind this maelstrom of activity is the perennial relationship to 'theory', that is, ideas, principles and practices that somehow lie behind composers' and performers' actions. Some composers claim they just 'respond' to sound and compose 'with their ears', while others use models and analogies of previously 'non-musical' processes. It is evident that in such new musical practices the human body has a new relationship to the sound. There is a historical dimension to this, for since the earliest electroacoustic experiments in 1948 the body has been celebrated or sublimated in a strange 'dance' of forces in which it has never quite gone away but rarely been overtly present. The relationship of the body performing to the spaces around has also undergone a revolution as the source of sound production has shifted to the loudspeaker. Emmerson considers these issues in the framework of our increasingly 'acousmatic' world in which we cannot see the source of the sounds we hear.

Author : Marc Battier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9057551144

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Aesthetics of Live Electronic Music by Marc Battier Pdf

The vast leaps being made in live and interactive technology, and the increasing availability of immensely sophisticated equipment have opened up a tremendously exciting world for today's composers working with live electronic music. This book comprises essays from working composers, who provide their own unique insight into how live electronic music impacts and audience, the performance situation and ultimately, music. Also includes 12 musical examples. Marc Battier has composed several live electronic pieces in the last twenty years. He is associate professor at the University of Sorbonne in Paris.

Author : Deniz Peters,Gerhard Eckel,Andreas Dorschel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136504877

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Bodily Expression in Electronic Music by Deniz Peters,Gerhard Eckel,Andreas Dorschel Pdf

In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing disciplinary boundaries and established beliefs. The historic decoupling of action and sound generation might be seen to have distorted or even effaced the expressive body, with the retention of performance qualities via recoupling not equally retaining bodily expressivity. When, where, and what is the body expressed in electronic music then? The authors of this book reveal composers’, performers’, improvisers’ and listeners’ bodies, as well as the works’ and technologies’ figurative bodies as a rich source of expressive articulation. Bringing together humanities’ scholarship and musical arts contingent upon new media, the contributors offer inspiring thought and critical reflection for all those seriously engaged with the aesthetics of electronic music, interactive performance, and the body’s role in aesthetic experience and expression. Performativity is not only seen as being reclaimed in live electronic music, interactive arts, and installations; it is also exposed as embodied in the music and the listeners themselves.

Author : Friedemann Sallis,Valentina Bertolani,Jan Burle,Laura Zattra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317692102

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Live Electronic Music by Friedemann Sallis,Valentina Bertolani,Jan Burle,Laura Zattra Pdf

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer’s role and the concept of music as performance. This book examines questions related to music that cannot be set in conventional notation, reporting and reflecting on current research and creative practice primarily in live electronic music. It studies compositions for which the musical text is problematic, that is, non-existent, incomplete, insufficiently precise or transmitted in a nontraditional format. Thus, at the core of this project is an absence. The objects of study lack a reliably precise graphical representation of the work as the composer or the composer/performer conceived or imagined it. How do we compose, perform and study music that cannot be set in conventional notation? The authors of this book examine this problem from the complementary perspectives of the composer, the performer, the musical assistant, the audio engineer, the computer scientist and the musicologist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:909854798

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The Aesthetics of Live Electronic Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirsten Hermes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000470260

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Performing Electronic Music Live by Kirsten Hermes Pdf

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware, to live visuals, venue acoustics, and live show promotion. Through case studies and contrasting tutorials by successful artists, Kirsten Hermes explores the many different ways in which you can create memorable experiences on stage. Featuring interviews with highly accomplished musicians and practitioners, readers can also expand on their knowledge with hands-on video tutorials for each chapter via the companion website, performingelectronicmusic.live. Performing Electronic Music Live is an essential, all-encompassing resource for professionals, students of music production courses, and researchers in the field of creative-focused performance technology.

Author : Dennis DeSantis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3981716507

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Making Music by Dennis DeSantis Pdf

Author : Brian M. Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315519753

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The Music Producer’s Survival Guide by Brian M. Jackson Pdf

A music-career book like no other, The Music Producer’s Survival Guide offers a wide-ranging, exploratory, yet refreshing down-to-earth take on living the life of the independent electronic music producer. If you are an intellectually curious musician/producer eager to make your mark in today’s technologically advanced music business, you’re in for a treat. This new edition includes industry and technological updates, additional interviews, and tips about personal finances, income, and budgets. In this friendly, philosophical take on the art and science of music production, veteran producer, engineer, and teacher Brian Jackson shares clear, practical advice about shaping your own career in today’s computer-centric "home-studio" music world. You’ll cover music technology, philosophy of music production, career planning, networking, craft and creativity, the DIY ethos, lifestyle considerations, and much more. Brian’s thoughtful approach will teach you to integrate your creative passion, your lifestyle, and your technical know-how. The Music Producer’s Survival Guide is the first music-production book to consider the influence of complexity studies and chaos theory on music-making and career development. It focuses on practicality while traversing a wide spectrum of topics, including essential creative process techniques, the TR-808, the proliferation of presets, the butterfly effect, granular synthesis, harmonic ratios, altered states, fractal patterns, the dynamics of genre evolution, and much more. Carving out your niche in music today is an invigorating challenge that will test all your skills and capacities. Learn to survive—and thrive—as a creative-technical professional in today’s music business, with the help of Brian Jackson and The Music Producer’s Survival Guide!

Author : Dan Warner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781780238715

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Live Wires by Dan Warner Pdf

We live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren’t a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen’s Kontakte a few years later, is now a common soundscape in technology, media, and an array of musical genres and subgenres. More people than ever before can produce and listen to electronic music, from isolated experimenters, classical and jazz musicians, to rock musicians, sound recordists, and the newer generations of electronic musicians making hip-hop, house, techno, and ambient music. Increasingly we are listening to electronic sounds, finding new meanings in them, experimenting with them, and rehearing them as listeners and makers. Live Wires explores how five key electronic technologies—the tape recorder, circuit, computer, microphone, and turntable—revolutionized musical thought. Featuring the work of major figures in electronic music—including everyone from Schaeffer, Varèse, Xenakis, Babbitt, and Oliveros to Eno, Keith Emerson, Grandmaster Flash, Juan Atkins, and Holly Herndon—Live Wires is an arresting discussion of the powerful musical ideas that are being recycled, rethought, and remixed by the most interesting electronic composers and musicians today.

Author : Simon Emmerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134358779

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Timbre Composition in Electroacoustic Music by Simon Emmerson Pdf

First Published in 1994. The contributions to this collection have been selected to define a range of interests from the technical, aesthetic, cognitive and compositional spheres. The book addresses the continuing need for musicologists, psychologists, composers and listeners to enter into a creative dialogue with designers and builders, who are usually programmers in the contemporary world. The collection as a whole will help to demonstrate the great potential for exchange between the multidisciplinary approaches to music.

Author : Thom Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317410225

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Electronic and Experimental Music by Thom Holmes Pdf

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been extensively revised with the needs of students and instructors in mind. The reader-friendly style, logical organization, and pedagogical features of the fifth edition allow easy access to key ideas, milestones, and concepts. New to this edition: • A companion website, featuring key examples of electronic music, both historical and contemporary. • Listening Guides providing a moment-by-moment annotated exploration of key works of electronic music. • A new chapter—Contemporary Practices in Composing Electronic Music. • Updated presentation of classic electronic music in the United Kingdom, Italy, Latin America, and Asia, covering the history of electronic music globally. • An expanded discussion of early experiments with jazz and electronic music, and the roots of electronic rock. • Additional accounts of the vastly under-reported contributions of women composers in the field. • More photos, scores, and illustrations throughout. The companion website features a number of student and instructor resources, such as additional Listening Guides, links to streaming audio examples and online video resources, PowerPoint slides, and interactive quizzes.

Author : David Stubbs
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571323982

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Mars by 1980 by David Stubbs Pdf

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant garde. But how did we get here? In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of synthesised tones, from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through the musique concrete of the Futurists and radical composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Karl Stockhausen, to the gradual absorption of electronic instrumentation into the mainstream, be it through the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, grandiose prog rock or the DIY approach of electronica, house and techno.Stubbs tells a tale of mavericks and future dreamers, malfunctioning devices and sonic mayhem. But above all, he describes an essential story of authenticity: is this music? Mars by 1980 is the definitive account that answers this question.

Author : Gary Montague
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3718651165

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Live Electronics by Gary Montague Pdf

Author : Nicholas Collins,Margaret Schedel,Scott Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107010932

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Electronic Music by Nicholas Collins,Margaret Schedel,Scott Wilson Pdf

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

Author : Nick Collins,Margaret Schedel,Scott Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107244542

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Electronic Music by Nick Collins,Margaret Schedel,Scott Wilson Pdf

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental manifestations of electronic music. From early recording equipment to the most recent multimedia performances, the history of electronic music is full of interesting characters, fascinating and unusual music, and radical technology. Covering many different eras, genres and media, analyses of works appear alongside critical discussion of central ideas and themes, making this an essential guide for anyone approaching the subject for the first time. Chapters include key topics from synth pop to sound art, from electronic dance music to electrical instruments, and from the expression of pure sound to audiovisuals. Highly illustrated and with a wide selection of examples, the book provides many suggestions for further reading and listening to encourage students to begin their own experiments in this exciting field.