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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"acousmatic music"”.
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Recurrence in acousmatic music
… research concerns recurrent phenomena in acousmatic works, investigating aspects of correspondence among the constituent sound materials, illuminating the temporal relationships existing among them, and providing concepts to help rationalise compositional structuring processes. While the …
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Exploring compositional relationships between acousmatic music and electronica
… explores the compositional relationships between acousmatic music and electronica in order to offer a way of unifying the two musical forms. The original contribution to knowledge comes from the creation of a portfolio of compositions that extend the two idioms towards one another, resulting in a …
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A practical investigation of expectation in acousmatic music
The experience of expectation within acousmatic music is regarded as problematic because the electronic mediation of sound permits and even encourages composers to combine and integrate sounds of widely varying origins that may carry equally divergent aesthetic implications. Because of this, the …
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Materials, meaning and metaphor: Unveiling spatiotemporal pertinences in acousmatic music
… the listening strategies for electroacoustic music by François Delalande. A listening experiment was undertaken to test Delalande’s strategies and to learn from listeners’ responses in order to apply them to compositional practice. This process prompted the conception of a new, integrated …
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A perceptual approach to the description and analysis of acousmatic music
… the problems of describing and analysing music that is composed for, and presented from, a fixed medium, and diffused over loudspeakers with minimal intervention, especially where such music resembles everyday sounds as much as it does traditional musical material. It is argued that most …
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Materials, meaning and metaphor: Unveiling spatio-temporal pertinences in acousmatic music
… the listening strategies for electroacoustic music by François Delalande. A listening experiment was undertaken to test Delalande’s strategies and to learn from listeners’ responses in order to apply them to compositional practice. This process prompted the conception of a new, integrated …
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Spectral spatiality in the acousmatic listening context
… of a spectral space consciousness in the acousmatic listening experience is highlighted, particularly with regard to more abstract acousmatic contexts where sounds do not directly invoke familiar source identities. Chapters Three and Four further elaborate aspects of spectral space …
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Acousmatic Storytelling: A compositional approach
… explore the idea of relating storytelling with acousmatic music in the creation of a hybrid vehicle for transmitting stories, to develop a compositional methodology derived from the exploration of the synergy between storytelling techniques and acousmatic practice and to deliver works, which …
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Phonographies: Practical and Theoretical Explorations into Composing with Disembodied Sound
… the different genres of electroacoustic music that the works relate to as well as examining models of work in the respective genres (i. e. sonic art, text.. sound, acousmatic composition, inusique concrite and soundscape composition), and places them into a broader cultural and historical …
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Topology of spatial texture in the acousmatic medium
… the dynamic fabric of experienced space in acousmatic music. The topology of spatial texture is a network of concepts treating music as a flexible, textural space, which deforms, shapes, and transforms in time. A comprehensive terminology is introduced, along with five fixed-media …
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Summer Rain Part I Summer Rain - Dawn for Two-channel Tape; Part II After the Summer Rain for Piano and Two-channel Tape
… of musique concrète, Electronische Musik, acousmatic music and music for instruments and tape, followed by basic descriptions of digital technique used in both parts of Summer Rain in Chapter 2. Also Chapter 2 describes software used in Summer Rain including "Kawamoto's VST," which is based …
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Structuring processes in electroacoustic composition
… Each approach is designed to create a musical structure that relates sound materials throughout the work in a meaningful way, with the final aim of presenting a memorable experience, enticing further listening. These relationships are explained by analysing the musical structure and by …
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A portfolio of acousmatic compositions
… of three years. The works it contains are all acousmatic; they investigate sonic material through articulation and gesture, and place emphasis on spatial movement through both stereophony and multi-channel environments. The portfolio is written as a personal journey, with minimal reference to …
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The perception of timescales in electroacoustic music
… and perception of timescales in electroacoustic music, to examine modes of experiencing time, and to discover a method that uses this knowledge to the advantage of the composer. Although the main focus is on acousmatic works, much of the research presented here has a broader scope and is relevant …
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Masters composition portfolio
… which I will consider listening in relation to ‘acousmatic’ music looking at some of the ideas and concepts that have been influential in the development of my own approach to listening over the course of this masters. I will also attempt to justify this approach with reference to ecological …
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The unsound object and intimate space
… account of conceptual art, instead of a strict acousmatic music narrative. A deliberate ‘wandering across borders’ is maintained throughout, to unpick the unsound object and intimate space through live work and ‘writing through’ of texts. My practice shifts between object based sound works, live …
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Multi-form Visualisation: An approach to acousmatic composition
… doctoral research addresses a critical issue in acousmatic composition: the journey from the immaterial world of sonic imagination to the realisation of musical sound. This was an exploratory journey, where my personal sensibility for visual arts practice met my curiosity and profound interest in …
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The dramaturgy of music: its impact on my composition
… dissertation) defines my personal approach to musical composition using music dramaturgy as its main source of inspiration and expression, contextualising the compositions within other pieces in the field and also within my own production. The pieces were selected following recommendations and …
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Behind the curtain: composing acousmatic sounds and 3D CGI
… project is to explore possible ways of combining acousmatic sounds with three-dimensional computer-generated imagery (3D CGI) so as to achieve balance between the two materials. Balance between sounds and images is a recurrent issue in audiovisual composition. This portfolio of works tackles this …
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Merging 20th Century Art Music and Pre-recorded Sound: 17 Pieces
… research investigates the relationship between acousmatic music and instrumental music, using developments in 20th century western art music to define its context including the compositional practices of Arnold Schoenberg (d.1951), Claude Debussy (d.1918), Nikolai Roslavets (d.1944), Luigi Nono …
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