Composing Electronic Music

A rich and enjoyable survey for the computer musician, ranging from the objects of compositional manipulation to the performative aspects of the shaping of sensory experience. This book will be of interest not only to the electronic music composer, but also to the performing musician, and the general reader interested in the process and principles of musical design.

Autorentext

Curtis Roads is a 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 Computer Music Journal for 23 years. The author of numerous books, his electronic music set POINT LINE CLOUD won the Award of Distinction at the 2002 Ars Electronica.

Klappentext

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Composing Electronic Music outlines a new theory based on the powerful toolkit of electronic music techniques.

Inhalt

• 00 Preface

• 01 The electronic medium

• 02 Aesthetic foundations

• 03 The nature of sound

• 04 Creating sound materials

• 05 Sound transformation

• 06 Processes of rhythm

• 07 Pitch in electronic music

• 08 Articulating space

• 09 Multiscale organization

• 10 Sonic narrative

• 11 Generative strategies

• 12 The art of mixing

• 13 References

• Appendix A List of sound examples

• Index