Essays about: "dirigering"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the word dirigering.
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1. Phainesthai : Auditory Processes as Tools for Musical Composition
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriAbstract : The human auditory system can become an active agent in the production of sound when stimulated with specific tone combinations. The resulting auditory distortion products can be amplified and drawn attention to by employing certain just intonation practices – a compositional technique that may serve as a powerful catalyst for reaching different states of mind in listeners. READ MORE
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2. The Well Trained Algorithm : An exploration of the use of AI as a tool for musical expression
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriAbstract : The Well Trained Algorithm is a composition that challenges prevailing conceptions of the use of AI tools in music through the reconceptualising of JukeBox, a generative AI model for music, as an instrument in its own right. Here, I am coining the term ‘instrumentisation’ to describe a methodology for applying the qualities and associations of a musical instrument to a traditionally non-musical object. READ MORE
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3. Ritual Dissent : A compositional approach to trees, cycles and rituals
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriAbstract : Rituals are part of the communities in which we grow up. They help to shape our identities and determine how we live in society. This generates a collective nexus that allows us to thrive on an individual level, as well as to establish ourselves as social animals. READ MORE
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4. Sound response to physicality : Artistic expressions of movement sonification
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriAbstract : Over the last five years I have been investigating the phenomenon of movement sonification and different types of interaction ongoing within the experience. I have expanded my knowledge and skills in the fields of music, musical performance, dance, music theory, music technology, acoustics, physics, as well as cognitive and computer sciences. READ MORE
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5. Bad Habits : Exploring visual objects as a means of extracting and creating material for music composition
University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriAbstract : This dissertation explores my process of drawing inspiration from visual objects and visual arts in order to generate compositional tools for music writing. It analyzes some of my earlier works, when this practice started taking shape, up until the construction of Bad Habits, an orchestral piece that utilized the late works of late North American painter Philip Guston as its main drive. READ MORE
