Essays about: "experimental music composition"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words experimental music composition.

1. 1. Time Signatures in Modern Music

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Musikhögskolan i Malmö

   Author : Gonçalo Alexandre Soares Rodrigues; [2023]
   Keywords : Time signatures; Free Notation; Modern Music; Witold Lutosławski; György Ligeti; composition; quantitative qualitative rhythm; Performing Arts;

   Abstract : In the beginning of the 20th Century with the emergence of a new musical language as the Second Viennese School (Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern) took over, suddenly music pushed forward and away from traditional harmony, rhythm and even notation. Music started to lose its traditional feel of patterns, cadences and regularity and instead embraced new complexity, as composers started to avoid time signature patterns, tonal melodies, and harmonies. READ MORE

3. 2. Creating a Context for Listening: The Choreography of Sound

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Casey Moir; [2022-02-22]
   Keywords : listening to space; shaping space; mapping space; active listening; encouraging interactions; composing situation and sounds; spatialising performances; designing proximities and trajectories; composing movement and momentum; alternate performance spaces; changing the expectations of room; visualising sound in space; engaging spatial awareness; changing performance conditions; changing listening perspective; omnidirectional composition; experimental music composition; choreographing sound;

   Abstract : My thesis is an investigation into an omnidirectional approach to composition of experimental music. This involves considering the conditions of performance as compositional aspects, in addition to composing sounds. READ MORE

4. 3. Searching for possibilities - Exploring the potentials of my Qanun performance.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Richard Alsadi; [2021-10-21]
   Keywords : qanun; ancient instrument; traditional instrument; Middle Eastern music; world music; experimental; ambience; soundscape composition; maqam; noise music; self-discovery; extended techniques; improvisation;

   Abstract : Over the course of many years of playing the qanun; a trapezoidal middle eastern zither-like stringed instrument, I have noticed how often the instrument has been played within its modal traditional framework, leading me to a perception that the qanun and myself are prevented from discovering more techniques and new potentials. I, hence, have been attempting to explore the traditional manners of treating the instrument with regard to timbre, playing techniques, and different harmonic orientations - while trying to maintain its true qualities and not losing sight of its traditional soul. READ MORE

5. 4. Feminist and Queer Noisemaking: An Exploration of Gender and Sexuality in Electronic Art Music

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Mollie Ruck; [2020-11-24]
   Keywords : Gender; art music; queerness; queer theory; music; composition; musicology; sound studies;

   Abstract : Men can be said to dominate the music industry, especially when it comes to composers and musicians who create experimental music and sounds which fall outside of mainstream music. Women and members of the LGBTQ+ community remain minorities within these genres, with little research being done on queer and feminist perspectives. READ MORE

6. 5. Correcting biological infrared spectroscopy data for atmospheric gases and Mie scattering

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Beräkningsbiologi och biologisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisation

   Author : Stéphan Pissot; [2020]
   Keywords : FTIR; spectroscopy; chemometrics; infrared absorption microscopy; atmospheric correction; scattering correction; Physics and Astronomy;

   Abstract : Infrared absorption microscopy is a powerful chemometric tool with a wide variety of applications. It is, however, subject to considerable disturbances from atmospheric gases and scattering effects. READ MORE