Between the Tracks

Description

A collection that goes beyond the canon to analyze influential yet under-examined works of electronic music.

This collection of writings on electronic music goes outside the canon to analyze influential works by under-recognized musicians. The contributors, many of whom are composers and performers themselves, offer their unsung musical heroes the sort of in-depth examinations usually reserved for more well-known composers and works. They analyze music from around the world and across genders, race, nationality, and age, discussing works that range from soundscapes of rushing water and resonating pipes to compositions by algorithm. Subjects include the collaboration of performer and composer, as seen in the work of Anne La Berge, Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian, and others; the choice by Asian composers Zhang Xiaofu and Unsuk Chin to embrace (or not) Eastern themes and styles; and how technologies used by composers created the sound of the works, as exemplified by Bülent Arel’s use of voltage-control components as compositional tools and Charles Dodge’s resynthesizing of the human voice.

Contributors

Marc Battier, Valentina Bertolani, Kerry L. Hagan, Yvette Janine Jackson, Leigh Landy, Pamela Madsen, Miller Puckette, David Rosenboom, Jøran Rudi, Margaret Anne Schedel, Juliana Snapper, Laura Zattra

Composers

Bülent Arel, Cathy Berberian and Luciano Berio, Anne La Berge, Unsuk Chin, Charles Dodge, Jacqueline George, Salvatore Martirano, Teresa Rampazzi, Hildegard Westerkamp, Knut Wiggen, Gayle Young, Zhang Xiaofu

Preface ix
1 Narrative Soundscape Composition: Approaching Jacqueline George’s Same Sun 1 Yvette Janine Jackson
2 Analysis of Gayle Young’s Ice Creek (2018) 21 Valentina Bertolani
3 Hildegard Westerkamp’s Beneath the Forest Floor (1992) 39 Leigh Landy
4 The Contributions of Charles Dodge’s Speech Songs to Computer Music Practice 63 Miller Puckette
5 The Musical Imagination of Knut Wiggen 83 Jøran Rudi
6 Exploring Compositional Choice in the SalMar Construction and Related Early Works by Salvatore Martirano 113 David Rosenboom
7 Invisible Influence: An Analysis of Bülent Arel’s Fantasy and Dance for Five Viols and Tape 153 Margaret Anne Schedel with Taylor Ackley
8 Nuo Ri Lang by Zhang Xiaofu 173 Marc Battier
9 Seeds and Mutations: Connections and Divergences in the Materials of Unsuk Chin’s Xi 195 Kerry L. Hagan
10 The Collaborative Process of Re-creation: Anne La Berge’s Brokenheart (2007) for Performers, Live Electronics, and Video 223 Pamela Madsen
11 Taras su tre dimensioni by Teresa Rampazzi: Documenting the Creative Process 241 Laura Zattra
12 Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian’s Visage: Revisiting Late Modernist Composition and the New Vocality 265 Juliana Snapper
Author Biographies 281
Index 287Miller Puckette is Professor in the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego. He has authored Max and Pure Data (“Pd”), programming environments for music and multimedia works.

Kerry L. Hagan is a composer and researcher working in both acoustic and computer media. She is on the faculty of the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre at the University of Limerick.US

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