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Description

Trevor Wishart looks at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing. His emphasis is on musical rather than technical matters. The text begins with a critical analysis of the assumptions underlying the Western musical tradition and the traditional acoustic theories of Pythagoras and Helmholtz. It later examines in detail such topics as the musical organization of complex sound-objects, using and manipulating representational sounds and the various dimensions of human and non-human utterance. The author seeks to learn lessons from areas such as, poetry, sound-poetry, film, sound effects and animal communications - not traditionally associated with the field of music. An audio CD containing many of the musical examples featured in the text is also included.

Author Biography:

Trevor Wishart is a composer, living and working in the North of England. His musical works cover a wide range, from environmental music events staged in specific outdoor locations (Beach Singularity, 1977) through musical theatre works using props, staging and effects (Tuba Mirum, Gaudeamus prizewinner, 1979) to major electroacoustic works (Red Bird, prizewinner, Bourges, 1978) and the exploration of extended vocal techniques (Anticredos, 1980). A co-author of the book Whose Music? A Sociology of Musical Languages, he has also been involved in developments in creative music education and recently designed and realized the 54-channel Soundscape of the Jorvik Viking Centre multimedia museum, the first of its kind in the UK. He is currently developing a software package to control the motion of several sound-sources in space.
Release date Australia
July 1st, 1996
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Edited by Simon Emmerson
Pages
372
Dimensions
178x254x19
ISBN-13
9783718658473
Product ID
2623913

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