Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music

by Miller Puckette (Editor), Kerry L. Hagan (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262539302
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Miller 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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Narrative Soundscape Composition: Approaching Jacqueline George's Same Sun Yvette Janine Jackson 1

2 Analysis of Gayle Young's Ice Creek (2018) Valentina Bertolani 21

3 Hildegard Westerkamp's Beneath the Forest Floor (1992) Leigh Landy 39

4 The Contributions of Charles Dodge's Speech Songs to Computer Music Practice Miller Puckette 63

5 The Musical Imagination of Knut Wiggen Jøran Rudi 83

6 Exploring Compositional Choice in the SalMar Construction and Related Early Works by Salvatore Martirano David Rosenboom 113

7 Invisible Influence: An Analysis of Bülent Arel's Fantasy and Dance for Five Viols and Tape Margaret Anne Schedel Taylor Ackley 153

8 Nuo Ri Lang by Zhang Xiaofu Marc Battier 173

9 Seeds and Mutations: Connections and Divergences in the Materials of Unsuk Chin's Xi Kerry L. Hagan 195

10 The Collaborative Process of Re-creation: Anne La Berge's Brokenheart (2007) for Performers, Live Electronics, and Video Pamela Madsen 223

11 Taras su tre dimensioni by Teresa Rampazzi: Documenting the Creative Process Laura Zattra 241

12 Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian's Visage, Revisiting Late Modernist Composition and the New Vocality Juliana Snapper 265

Author Biographies 281

Index 287