Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives...

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Marc Estibeiro Dave Payling

Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music

NoiseFloor Perspectives

Marc Estibeiro, Dave Payling, David Cotter

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English

Focal Press
12 December 2024

Theory of music & musicology; Electronic music; Audio processing

Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives illuminates practices at the forefront of modern music-making and is built on a rich collection of concerts and talks, representing over a decade of artistic insight and creative practice showcased at the annual NoiseFloor event.

Exploring the themes of collaboration, engagement, and tradition, this cutting-edge collection offers chapters on a range of pressing issues, including AI in music, audiovisual composition, environmental sound, and interactive sound systems. NoiseFloor’s aim is to showcase research and original works by international composers and performers and has attracted prolific artists in a wide range of related fields – many of whom have contributed to this volume. This book provides a timely snapshot of new and emerging developments in the broad field of contemporary music-making.

Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music will be of interest to postgraduates and advanced undergraduates working in the areas of contemporary music, electronic music, and music technology. This book is also ideal for composers, artists, and researchers investigating theoretical concepts and compositional practices in contemporary music.

Edited by: Marc Estibeiro, Dave Payling, David Cotter
Imprint: Focal Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781032553740
ISBN 10: 103255374X
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1: Collaboration 1. Electronics as a Member of The Ensemble 2. Composing With Instruments and Live Electronics 3. Forty Years of Live Electro-Acoustic Music: Reflections on a Continuing Partnership 4. Music in Vision: Visual Music Instruments in Practice 5. Autonomous Music Systems with Agency Part 2: Engagement 6. Formuls: An Electronic Musical Instrument for Synthesis Based Composition and Performance 7. Overtone Music 8. Spatial Sonorous Objects and Their Creative Use: A Framework for The Analysis Of Spatialisation 9. Sound as Method: Creative Textual Practices as Critical Rewritings Part 3: Tradition 10. Scratching, Past and Future: Cataloguing the Scholarship on Turntablism and Controllerism, And an Introduction to Their Emerging Affiliated Practices and Communities 11. Composing with Ambisonics: An Electroacoustic Practitioner’s Guide 12. Audiovisualisation: Reviving the Spectre of Optical Sound and Structural / Materialist Film 13. Events and Continuums: The Audiovisual Composition ‘Estuaries 4’ 14. From Stochastic Music to Quantum Music 15. Exploring the Musical Potential and Non-Hierarchical Signal-Noise Relationships in MP3 Compression Technologies using Musical Composition 16. Motion Capture for Musical Expression

Marc Estibeiro is a composer, guitar player, and academic. His academic work focuses on composing music for acoustic instruments and electronics. His work has been presented at conferences, workshops, concerts, and seminars around the world. Marc is currently Associate Professor of Music at Staffordshire University in the UK. Dave Payling is a visual music artist from Staffordshire. His work focuses on composition for Visual Music with abstract animation and electronic music. Dave is section editor for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and author of Electronic Visual Music: The Elements of Audiovisual Creativity. David Cotter is an academic and musician, lecturing and performing on the international stage. His doctoral research at the University of Cambridge concerns the cultural, sonic, spatial, and technological affordances of the guitar in collaborative music performance.