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Spectromorphology: explaining sound-shapes
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Electoacoustic music opens access to all sounds, a bewildering sonic array ranging from the real to the surreal and beyond, where the familiar articulations of instruments and vocal utterance are gone, and the stability of note and interval is gone.Abstract:
The art of music is no longer limited to the sounding models of instruments and voices. Electoacoustic music opens access to all sounds, a bewildering sonic array ranging from the real to the surreal and beyond. For listeners the traditional links with physical sound-making are frequently ruptured: electroacoustic sound-shapes and qualities frequently do not indicate known sources and causes. Gone are the familiar articulations of instruments and vocal utterance: gone is the stability of note and interval: gone too is the reference of beat and metre. Composers also have problems: how to cut an aesthetic path and discover a stability in a wide-open sound world, how to develop appropriate sound-making methods, how to select technologies and software.read more
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Gestural-Sonorous Objects: embodied extensions of Schaeffer's conceptual apparatus
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Spectromorphological analysis of sound objects: an adaptation of Pierre Schaeffer's typomorphology
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TL;DR: This paper intends to develop Schaeffer's approach in the direction of a practical tool for conceptualising and notating sound quality, and introduces a set of graphic symbols apt for transcribing electroacoustic music in a concise score.
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The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music
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TL;DR: This book brings together some novel threads through this scene, from the viewpoint of researchers at the forefront of the sonic explorations empowered by electronic technology, and uncover some hitherto less publicised corners of worldwide movements.
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Traité des objets musicaux
TL;DR: This dissertation aims to provide a history of music criticism in the post-modern period from 1989 to 2002, a period chosen in order to explore its roots as well as specific cases up to and including the year in which Pierre Schaeffer died.
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On sonic art
TL;DR: In this paper, Wishart takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing.
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Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music
TL;DR: The play-with-sign theory of classical music as discussed by the authors proposes a theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending.