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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"experimental music"”.
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An experimental music program based on Montessori principles
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University
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Eclecticism, postmodernism, subversion: new perspectives on English experimental music
… the use of reference and quotation in English experimental music. Observing that these phenomena are also common in other areas of music, it attempts to make firm distinctions between various manifestations and offer reasons why eclectic compositions emanating from the experimental tradition …
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Sound and Image: Experimental Music and the Popular Horror Film (1960 to the present day)
… a particular generic and historical context - experimental music and the popular horror film, from 1960 to the present day. The study responds to a significant gap in the literature that requires sustained and in-depth academic attention. Despite recent expansion, the field of film music …
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From experimental music to musical experiment, and, Listening to technology: Musical response in the age of digital technique
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Make This Make Sound
… that made me feel more comfortable as a musician. The instruments lend themselves to an experimental music making process as they do not have a history that must adhere to traditional Western music standards. A series of play sessions, some with only practicing musicians, and the rest …
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Voices of New Music on National Public Radio: Radio Net, RadioVisions, and Maritime Rites
… focuses on the relationship between new American music and National Public Radio (NPR) during the 1970s and 1980s. NPR directly supported American experimental music, most often billed as "new music," through programming that both consolidated a tradition and extended it by commissioning new …
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Composing Paradoxes Feminist Process in Sound Arts and Experimental Musics
… to manifest in the making of sound arts and experimental musics with a specific focus upon works made by women. Drawing upon compositions, installations and artist-archives including works by Lina Džuverovic, Anne Hilde Neset, Cathy Lane, Emma Hedditch, Sonia Boyce, Kim Gordon and Jutta …
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Pilgrim Carnival
This thesis explores an experimental music approach to writing autobiography. As a composition, Pilgrim Carnival took place as a travelling series of events. The central event was a sound installation for a blindfolded audience. This essay is a description of that series of events as well as a …
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Conducting Experiments: On the Connections Between Experimental Art Praxes and Performance Studies
… dissertation explores experimentation--across experimental music, experimental theatre, and experimental film, in addition to the term's etymology, scientific usage, and colloquial deployment--in order to derive a deeper understanding of what we mean when we say an artwork is experimental, and …
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Trans*Vocal: Documenting Gender Subjectivity Through Changing Vocality
… through autoethnographic methods and creating an experimental music video, Trans*Vocal. I open up and make myself vulnerable in the hope that greater knowledge of trans* experience will bring appreciation for "non-normal" vocalizations. I aim to problematize our current language surrounding …
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The effect of music on anxiety in patients undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery
… purpose was to assess the influence of sedative music, as a nursing intervention, on the patient's postoperative anxiety level; Random assignment to a music treatment group or a no music control group, by surgical day, was performed. The experimental (music) group (n = 12) was given a tape …
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Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19
… pandemic rendering in-person concerts untenable, music communities adopted livestreaming on Twitch as an alternate mode of throwing events. This thesis studies a time of mass improvisation by examining how communities built around improvised music — which themselves are often supported by …
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
… (1932-2016) is a composer of electronic and experimental music that significantly impacted how we approach music as participants and scholars. Utilizing nontraditional forms of composition, her trailblazing Sonic Meditations (1971) adapted elements of the emerging somatics movement of the …
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
… (1932-2016) is a composer of electronic and experimental music that significantly impacted how we approach music as participants and scholars. Utilizing nontraditional forms of composition, her trailblazing Sonic Meditations (1971) adapted elements of the emerging somatics movement of the …
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Pedal Points: Harmony and the Double-Action Pedal System in Modern Harp Music
… harmony and pitch collections in chromatic harp music. This thesis explores the pedal harp and the influence the affordance and idiomacy of the pedal layout exerts onto chromatic harp repertoire. It draws on embodiment and schema theory to describe patterns of pedal motion in harp music, thus …
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Towards Elucidating Psychological Arousal in Response to Music Theatre
… explores the psychological effects of observing experimental music theatre performance video recording. Experiencing music theatre can evoke a range of aesthetic and psychological emotions in audiences. These include joy, sadness, fear, unease, excitement, and empathy. Immersion in stories and …
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Forms of luminosity
Forms of Luminosity is an experimental music-based performance that brings private listening experiences into the public sphere for examination. My research focuses on the relationship between a person, his or her iPod, and the private listening experience thus created. This public-private …
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The Modes of Intervention in Alvin Lucier’s <i>I Am Sitting in a Room</i>
… am sitting in a room </em>(1969) is an icon of experimental music and sound art. The sizable literature addressing the aesthetic and philosophical implications of this piece rarely discusses the performance practice beyond what is indicated in the score itself. This is problematic for two …
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The Musical Playground as a Vehicle for Community-building
… study, I sought to outline how an alternative music education site, such as a musical playground can positively impact creative expression, music education, and community. An instrumental case study was conducted on the Music Box Village (MBV) in New Orleans, Louisiana as run by the collective …
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