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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"spectralism"”.
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Portfolio of Compositions
… two diverse strands of musical influence; spectralism and minimalism. The portfolio explores the multiple manners in which these two can be merged together in order to promote the confluence of the two compositional approaches. It is important to note that whilst this is the main focus, …
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The Sound of Adventure: Two Original Compositions That Combine Music, Sound Design, and Post-production, Inspired by Outdoor Experiences
… themselves contain principles of minimalism and spectralism, elctroacoustic music, impulse response and digital reverberation, and live manipulation of sound through post production techniques.</p> <p>In this way, this project builds unity between the worlds of landscape chamber music and …
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Trails by a river: for large orchestra and electronic sounds (MAX/MSP)
… practices such as micro polyphony, pointillism, spectralism, computer music, tonality, and other non-tonal categories. Although it cannot be referred to as a work that represents a style with a specific ethno-cultural background, the rhythmic foundations of certain parts are derived from some …
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Jonathan Harvey's string quartets
… trends with which he is associated—serialism, spectralism, electronic music, and spiritual music. Four chapters are dedicated to discussing unique analytical aspects of each quartet. The First Quartet’s multiple structural levels show a Schenkerian global approach. At the local level, a …
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Abstractions from Spectral Sonorities
… in contemporary music. Potential limitations of Spectralism (as a genre) are taken into consideration, and several philosophical underpinnings of this compositional style are called into question as I consider the possibility of a music which is enhanced, but not constricted, by its technical …
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From the Harmony of the Spheres to Spherical Harmonics : The Potential of Wave-Based Morphogenetic Processes for Musical and Architectural Composition
Architecture is to space what music is to time: this brief sentence summarizes the deep, intriguing and intimate relationship that architecture and music have maintained all along history, especially in the Western world. It also reflects the cosmological roots of this connection, which translates …
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A Thousand Bells: Acoustical implementation of bell spectra using the finite element method and its compositional realization
This dissertation focuses primarily on the analysis of acoustical models of bell sounds and the modelling of virtual bell shapes and their spectra using the Finite Element Method (FEM) technique. The first chapter provides a brief introduction of pre and post-spectral music that is inspired by or …