Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195373243 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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It presents a guidebook: a tour of facts, history, commentary, opinions, and pointers to interesting ideas and new possibilities to consider and explore.. Envelope and waveform undulations on all time scales interweave to generate form. The theory consists of a framework of concepts and a vocabulary of terms describing musical materials, their transformation, and their organization. This convergence of technical and aesthetic trends prompts the need for a new text focused on the opportunities of a sound oriented, multiscale approach to composition of electronic music. The power of algorithmic methods amplify the capabilities of music technology. Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. Taken together, these constitute game-changing possibilities. Similarly, time occurs not merely as a fixed duration subdivided by ratios, but as a plastic medium that can be generated, modulated, reversed, warp
John_G said Definitive book on a new aesthetic of electronic music. Dr. Roads, who teaches computer music research, obviously knows his stuff. The book is a well-written discussion of a new aesthetic of electronic music. It could become THE Text Book on the Subject. Text is written at college-level comprehension.. William T. Bajzek said This book is a survey of aesthetics and techniques used. This book is a survey of aesthetics and techniques used in electronic music of all sorts. It's very academic and dry, but very thorough and informative.. A worthy contribution to the ways in which we hear, perceive, and talk about sound Overall, an excellent, clear, concise discussion of the aesthetic elements that drive most (but not all) manifestations of the use of electronic equipment to generate sounds in ways that are intended to be received as "art." Professor Roads tries to cover a lot of ground here: the history of the practices, audio examples (from the companion website) to hear what he is discussing, as well as general areas of intellectual, scientific and artistic concern for people engaged in these practices. For me, personally, the most important aspect of this book is its contribution to the formation of a fundamental vocabulary
"Clearly formulated starting points engage the reader in more challenging concepts and interesting lines of enquiry, contextualising the many perspectives surrounding each topic. Clearly written, with a minimum of mathematics, it's the kind of book you can refer to time and time again."--SoundBytes"Time is passing, and when I came back to Paris, I read the wonderful book Composing Electronic Music : A New Aesthetic. He builds a thousand bridges between different approaches to attributes like pitch, rhythm, time scales, and even sonic narratives in order to help us to understand present music practices." -Horacio Vaggione, composer, Professor Emeritus, the Universit
The author of numerous books, his electronic music set POINT LINE CLOUD won the Award of Distinction at the 2002 Ars Electronica.. Curtis Roads is an award-winning composer and researcher who teaches electronic music composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He co-founded the International Computer Music Association and served as an editor/associate editor of