Live Electronic Music: Composition, Performance, Study

ISBN-13: 9780367869267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 340 str.

Friedemann Sallis; Valentina Bertolani; Jan Burle

Opis

During the 20th 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 opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer’s role and the concept of music as pe

Spis treści

Introduction

Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle and Laura Zattra 

Part I: Composition 

1. Dwelling in a field of sonic relationships: ‘instrument’ and ‘listening’ in an ecosystemic view of live electronics performance  

Agostino Di Scipio 

2. (The) speaking of characters, musically speaking  

Chris Chafe

3. Collaborating on composition: the role of the musical assistant at IRCAM, CCRMA and CSC

Laura Zattra  

Part II: Performance   

4. Alvise Vidolin interviewed by Laura Zattra: the role of the computer music designers in composition and performance  

Laura Zattra  

5. Instrumentalists on solo works with live electronics: towards a contemporary form of chamber music?

François-Xavier Féron and Guillaume Boutard  

6. Approaches to notation in music for piano and live electronics: the performer’s perspective

Xenia Pestova  

7. Encounterpoint: the ungainly instrument as co-performer

John Granzow 

8. Robotic musicianship in live improvisation involving humans and machines

George Tzanetakis  

Part III: Study

9. Authorship and performance tradition in the age of technology: (with examples from the performance history of works by Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen)

Angela Ida De Benedictis

10. (Absent) authors, texts and technologies: ethnographic pathways and compositional practices

Nicola Scaldaferri 

11. Computer-supported analysis of religious chant

Dániel Péter Biró and George Tzanetakis

12. Fixing the fu

O autorze

Friedemann Sallis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Music Department at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Valentina Bertolani is currently pursuing a PhD in musicology at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Jan Burle is a scientist at　Jülich Centre for Neutron Science,　Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH,　Outstation at MLZ　in Garching, Germany.

Laura Zattra is a research fellow at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France.