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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Electronic music."”.
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An analytical system for electronic music
An Analytical System for Electronic Music is a systematized method for the analysis of an electronic work and is directed towards making electronic music (E. M.) more accessible to the general audience and the experienced analyst.The uniqueness of E. M. is characterized by new sonic materials. …
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UEME : the underground electronic music experience
The global electronic music scene has remained underground for its entire lifespan, momentarily materializing during an event, a place defined by the music performed and the people who desire the experience. As festivals around the globe begin to take shape, the identity of electronic music defines …
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Use of Electronic Music in Brass Solo Literature
Brass and electronics is a relatively new performance genre from the late twentieth century that incorporates ever-advancing audio and computer technology. Over the last fifty years, the genre has advanced tremendously, comprised of hundreds of works across the brass family. As a performer, I …
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Last Snow: An Analysis of an Original Electronic Music Suite
… approximates a contemporary jazz style with electronic elements and shifting meters. While there are clear examples of imitative synthesis within the work, many abstract examples of a more diffuse, impressionistic bent are also discernible. Much of the programming for these last mentioned …
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Automatic classification of electronic music and speech/music audio content
… training machine learning algorithms. However, “electronic” or “techno” music is often misrepresented in prior work, especially given the recent rapid evolution of the genre and subsequent splintering into distinctive subgenres. As such, features are extracted from electronic music samples in an …
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20th-century serial thought and its development from performed to electronic music.
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Recent experimental electronic music practices in Iran: an ethnographic and sound-based investigation
… identify and locate an experimental elec-tronic music ‘scene’ in Iran within a web of historical-social-political-religious-economic-technological agencies. Drawing from the growing traditions of digital ethnography and artistic research, this project doc-uments and analyses the processes, …
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An assemblage of affective sounds: resistance and power through the Palestinian electronic music scene
… conceptual research about the Palestinian electronic dance scene. First, it sets out to make sense of social relations and elements traversing and constituting this space, locating the scene chronologically, geographically and affectively through anecdotes, interviews and encounters in …
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Electronic music instrument practice and the mechanisms of influence between technical design, performance practice and composition
… and techniques involved with particular electronic instruments and proposes an archaeological approach to reconsider the ways in which noise can communicate various details of instrument design and practice to the listener. I present two case studies concerning electronic music practice …
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FlexiGesture : a sensor-rich real-time adaptive gesture and affordance learning platform for electronic music control
Acoustic musical instruments have traditionally featured static mappings from input gesture to output sound, their input affordances being tied to the physics of their sound-production mechanism. More recently, the advent of digital sound synthesizers and electronic music controllers has abolished …
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Towards a Practitioner Model of Mobile Music
… the mobile paradigm in the context of electronic music, sound and performance; it considers the idea of mobile as a lens through which a new model of electronic music performance can be interrogated. This research explores mobile media devices as tools and modes of artistic expression …
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The grain of the voice of the cyborg
… for examining vocal timbre in conjunction with electronic music and external vocal technologies. By recounting historical reactions to electronic vocal technologies, exploring Wendy Carlos’ and Laura Les’ uses of these technologies in conjunction with transfemininity, and examining the evolution …
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The Sound of Adventure: Two Original Compositions That Combine Music, Sound Design, and Post-production, Inspired by Outdoor Experiences
… inspired by nature for centuries, but writing music about nature is becoming more popular in our day. Now, under titles like “Landscape Music” and “Environmental Music,” many composers seek to embody the feeling of nature in music. What has yet to be fully developed is how electronic music and …
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Jonathan Harvey's string quartets
This study examines Jonathan Harvey’s core musical processes and spiritual background through his four string quartets—No. 1 (1977), No. 2 (1988), No. 3 (1995), and No. 4 (2003). The paper surveys Harvey’s eclectic background in religion and musical education, and several trends with which he is …
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From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution
… in a wide range of research models including music, extremism, and birdsong. The first chapter is an introduction to the field of cultural evolution, including a bibliometric analysis of its structure. The second and third chapters are studies on the cultural dynamics of music sampling …
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GALiCA: A Gestural Approach to Live Coding Algorithms
Live coding is an electronic music performance practice in which performers generate music and visuals in real time by writing code. The cognitive approach to live coding differs greatly from that of gestural music, in which performers leverage extensive embodied knowledge of their instrument. …
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The grain of the digital audio workstation
… workstation (DAW), treating them as a subject of musical composition. The DAW is a software application currently ubiquitous in facilitating the creation of recorded and electronic music. Despite its prominence, few have articulated its unique possibilities for compositional practice, or …
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A Contemporary Approach to Expressiveness in the Design of Digital Musical Instruments
Digital musical instruments pose a number of unique challenges for designers and performers. These issues stem primarily from the lack of innate physical connection between the performance interface and means of sound generation, for the latter is usually dematerialised. Thus, this relationship …
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Squishy Music Toys: Creating a less stressful, more pliable way to enter the music world
Electronic music education today does not have a clear path to entry - the existing methods are expensive or overly complicated, making them unavailable to a lot of people. In this thesis I will explore a possible solution to this issue, through the creation of a new kind of music interface …
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