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Title The Routledge research companion to electronic music : reaching out with technology / edited by Simon Emmerson
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Contents Introduction. music practice: reaching out with technology / Simon Emmerson -- Part 1. Global reach -- local identities. Research-creation in Latin American / Ricardo Dal Farra (and others) ; Electronic music in East Asia / Marc Battier and Lin-Ni Liao ; The three paths : cultural retention in contemporary Chinese electroacoustic music / Leigh Landy ; Technologies of genre : digital distinctions in Montreal / Patrick Valiquet ; Dancing in the technoculture / Hillegonda Rietveld -- Awareness, consciousness, participation. Participatory sonic arts : the Som de Maré project -- towards a socially engaged art of sound in the everyday / Pedro Rebelo and Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso ; The problems with participation / Atau Tanaka and Adam Parkinson ; The agency of sonic art in changing climates / Leah Barclay ; Tuning and metagesture after new natures / Sally-Jane Norman ; Music neurotechnology : a natural progression / Eduardo Miranda and Joel Eaton -- Extending performance and interaction. Where are we : extended music practice on the Internet / Simon Emmerson and Kenneth Field ; Rendering the invisible : BEAST and the performance practice of acousmatic music / Jonty Harrison ; Creative coding for audiovisual art : the CodeCircle platform / Mick Grierson
Summary The theme of this Research Companion is 'connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology'. The possible scope of such a companion in the field of electronic music has changed radically over the last 30 years. The definitions of the field itself are now broader - there is no clear boundary between 'electronic music' and 'sound art'. Also, what was previously an apparently simple divide between 'art' and 'popular' practices is now not easy or helpful to make, and there is a rich cluster of streams of practice with many histories, including world music traditions. This leads in turn to a steady undermining of a primarily Euro-American enterprise in the second half of the twentieth century. Telecommunications technology, most importantly the development of the internet in the final years of the century, has made materials, practices and experiences ubiquitous and apparently universally available - though some contributions to this volume reassert the influence and importance of local cultural practice. Research in this field is now increasingly multi-disciplinary. Technological developments are embedded in practices which may be musical, social, individual and collective. The contributors to this companion embrace technological, scientific, aesthetic, historical and social approaches and a host of hybrids - but, most importantly, they try to show how these join up. Thus the intention has been to allow a wide variety of new practices to have voice - unified through ideas of 'reaching out' and 'connecting together' - and in effect showing that there is emerging a different kind of 'global music'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-335) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Electronic music -- History and criticism
Computer music -- History and criticism
Music and technology.
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Percussion.
Computer music
Electronic music
Music and technology
Elektronische Musik
Genre/Form Electronic books
handbooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Emmerson, Simon, 1950- editor.
LC no. 2020691352
ISBN 9781317043591
1317043596
9781315612911
1315612917