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Beloftevolle muziek / The promise of music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Beloftevolle muziek / The promise of music

Dit boek bevat de Nederlandse en Engelse publicatie. Jonge muzikanten die vandaag professionele muziekstudies aanvatten, hebben een missie. Hun keuze voor een arbeidsintensieve studie die weinig garanties biedt op een stabiele baan, vergt moed en geloof. Geloof in het eigen kunnen, maar ook in het potentieel van muziek voor de wereld van morgen. Deze publicatie stelt de vraag hoe muziek vandaag beloftevol kan zijn, en hoe conservatoria kunnen helpen die belofte te vervullen. Met bijdragen van studenten, docenten en onderzoekers verbonden aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This book con...

Contemporary Piano Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Contemporary Piano Music

This collection addresses different issues involving performance and musical creation in contemporary piano music. Organised into three sections, it examines the aesthetic and technical aspects of musical creation in the 20th century, and evaluates the questions that these aspects pose regarding the interpretative and performative process. It also offers a reflection on artistic practices in the 21st century, and explores their contribution to redefining the contemporary performative field.

Artistic Experimentation in Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Artistic Experimentation in Music

Essential reading for anyone interested in artistic research applied to music This book is the first anthology of writings about the emerging subject of artistic experimentation in music. This subject, as part of the cross-disciplinary field of artistic research, cuts across boundaries of the conventional categories of performance practice, music analysis, aesthetics, and music pedagogy. The texts, most of them specially written for this volume, have a common genesis in the explorations of the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM) in Ghent, Belgium. The book critically examines experimentation in music of different historical eras. It is essential reading for performers, composers, teache...

EMBODIED GESTURES
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

EMBODIED GESTURES

This is a book about musical gestures: multiple ways to design instruments, compose musical performances, analyze sound objects and represent sonic ideas through the central notion of ‘gesture’. The writers share knowledge on major research projects, musical compositions and methodological tools developed among different disciplines, such as sound art, embodied music cognition, human-computer interaction, performative studies and artificial intelligence. They visualize how similar and compatible are the notions of embodied music cognition and the artistic discourses proposed by musicians working with ‘gesture’ as their compositional material. The authors and editors hope to contribut...

Basic of sound and hearing: Part 5 electroacoustics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Basic of sound and hearing: Part 5 electroacoustics

electroacoustics This branch of acoustic engineering deals with the design of headphones, microphones, loudspeakers, sound systems, sound reproduction, and recording.[15] There has been a rapid increase in the use of portable electronic devices which can reproduce sound and rely on electroacoustic engineering, e.g. mobile phones, portable media players, and tablet computers. This term is also used for a set of electrokinetic effects that occur in heterogeneous liquids under influence of ultrasound. There is International Standard that describes such electroacoustic effects in details

Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-01-28
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  • Publisher: Vernon Press

Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in det...

Contemporary Musical Virtuosities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Contemporary Musical Virtuosities

Contemporary notions of musical virtuosity redevelop historic concepts and demonstrate that our present understanding of virtuosity in western art music has shifted from what seemed, for a time, to be a relatively clear and stable definition. In the field and the academy, lively debates around the definition and/or value of virtuosity have always elicited strong and varied ideas. In the twenty-first century, frictions have emerged between traditional definitions of virtuosity and contemporary practices that emphasise collaboration and blur roles between performers, composers, and improvisers. Contemporary Musical Virtuosities embraces the evolving processes, practitioners, and presentation m...

Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education

Higher Music Performance Education, as taught and learned in universities and conservatoires in Europe, is undergoing transformation. Since the nineteenth century, the master-apprentice pedagogical model has dominated, creating a learning environment that emphasises the development of technical skills rather than critical and creative faculties. This book contributes to the renewal of this field by being the first to address the potential of artistic research in developing student-centred approaches and greater student autonomy. This potential is demonstrated in chapters illustrating artistic research projects that are embedded within higher music education courses across Europe, with exampl...

Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond

Multidisciplinary analysis of experimentalism in music and the wider arts today Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond opens a necessary dialogue on experimental practices in the arts and negotiates their place in contemporary society. Going beyond the music-historical usage of the term “experimental”, this book reimagines experimentation as an open working definition encompassing multiple forms of artistic attitudes and processes. The texts, images, and sounds offer multiple traces, faces, and spaces, revealing what experimentalism in music and the wider arts entails today. With perspectives from a range of disciplines—from choreography through composition to philosophy and beyon...

Between Air and Electricity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Between Air and Electricity

Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from “inaudible” technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use – for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook – they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent. www.microphonesandloudspeakers.com