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Music Technology
An engaging and user-friendly introduction to the world of music technology, perfect for music students with little technical background.
The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music
Now updated and expanded with four new chapters, this book explores the history, theory, creation and analysis of electronic music.
Live Electronic Music
During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer’s role and the concept of music as performance. This book examines questions related to music that cannot be set in conventional notation, reporting and reflecting on current research and creative practice primarily in live electronic music. It studies compositions for which the musical text is problematic, that is, non-existent, incomplete, insufficiently prec...
Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition
Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.
Composing Processes and Artistic Agency
This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency. Artistic agency relies on the interlocking of such activities that emerge from various propositional and non-propositional (experiential, corporeal, sensory) forms of knowledge - listening, feeling, imagining, trying out, reflecting, noting and correcting, which represents a small selection of the multifaceted composing activities. The book develops an understanding of artistic agency and mastery in its fundamentally social nature, through the important, though largely ignored output of creative compositional processes. Using a mixture of case studies and theoretical frameworks, this book will appeal to sociologists, musicologists, creative studies scholars, and artists, particularly those who teach composition or research on this topic, as well as students of MA- and PhD-level.
Praktiken des Komponierens
Die Autoren untersuchen kompositorische Schaffensprozesse, wobei weder einzelne KomponistInnen noch ihre Werke im Vordergrund stehen. Sie erweitern die Selbstbeschreibungen der KomponistInnen beziehungsweise deren Ich-Perspektiven durch einen soziologisch und wissenstheoretisch inspirierten Ansatz, um Inhalte herauszuarbeiten, die sonst im Hintergrund der situativen Aufmerksamkeit bleiben. Somit richtet sich das Interesse der Autoren auf jene Komponenten und Bedingungen, die künstlerische Handlungsfähigkeit konstituieren. Kompositionsprozesse werden folglich als offene und dynamische Vorgänge betrachtet. Hören, Fühlen, Vorstellen, Suchen, Entwerfen, Ausprobieren, Spielen, Nachdenken, Notieren und Korrigieren stellen eine kleine Auswahl der vielschichtigen kompositorischen Aktivitäten dar. Künstlerisch-praktisches Können bildet sich aus einer steten Verzahnung solcher Aktivitäten, denen kognitive, sinnliche, körperliche und erfahrungsgeleitete Wissensformen zugrunde liegen.
Music Technology
Emphasising the creative aspect of music technology, this introduction sets out an overview of the field for music students in a non-scientific and straightforward way. Engaging and user-friendly, the book covers studio concepts: basic audio and the studio workflow, including audio and MIDI recording. It explores synthesisers, samplers and drum machines as well as basic concepts for electronic performance. In considering the role of the DJ, the book addresses remixing and production, drawing upon many examples from the popular music repertoire as well as looking at the studio as an experimental laboratory. The creative workflow involved in music for media is discussed, as well as controllers for performance and the basics of hacking electronics for music. The book as a whole reflects the many exciting areas found today in music technology and aims to set aspiring musicians off on a journey of discovery in electronic music.
