Nicholas Cook, Mark Everist (eds.): Rethinking Music (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · criticism, music theory, musicology
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.
Publisher Oxford University Press, 1999
ISBN 019879004X, 9780198790044
Length 574 pages
Curtis Roads: Microsound (2001)
Filed under book, sound recording | Tags: · computer music, electronic music, music, music history, music theory, sound, sound art, synthesis
“Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music—notes and their intervals—into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds.
Composers have used theories of microsound in computer music since the 1950s. Distinguished practitioners include Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. Today, with the increased interest in computer and electronic music, many young composers and software synthesis developers are exploring its advantages. Covering all aspects of composition with sound particles, Microsound offers composition theory, historical accounts, technical overviews, acoustical experiments, descriptions of musical works, and aesthetic reflections.”
Publisher MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 0262182157, 9780262182157
xii+409 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-8-3)
Accompanying CD (68 FLAC files, ZIP, added on 2013-9-11)
Michal Rataj: Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art (2007/2010) [Czech, English]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · czech republic, electroacoustic music, music, music theory, radio art, sound
The main purpose of the present thesis is to search for ways of methodological orientation within reflection of electroacoustic music, seen through the prism of what has been recently called acoustic arts. The way we try to formulate such positioning deals with particular methodological tasks: we try to generate space in which it is possible to think of “artistic discourses” within acoustic arts; subsequently, the thesis describes the specific discourse of electroacoustic music/radio art, explaining it from the viewpoint of the Czech radio-art producer.
English edition
With a Foreword by Miloš Vojtěchovský
Publisher PFAU, Saarbrücken, 2010
100 pages
Review (Tereza Havelková, Hudební věda, in Czech)
Publisher (CZ)
Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu (Czech, 2007, Ph.D. Dissertation), Alt link
Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art (English, undated)
Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radio Art (English, 2010, added on 2013-12-31)