Electroacoustic Music in East Asia

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Marc Battier (Shenzhen University, China) Kenneth Fields (Central Conservatory of Music, China)

Electroacoustic Music in East Asia

Marc Battier (Shenzhen University, China), Kenneth Fields (Central Conservatory of Music, China)

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Routledge
30 June 2021

Electronic music

This book illuminates the development of electronic and computer music in East Asia, presented by authors from these countries and territories (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).

The scholars bring forward the cultural complexities and conflicts involved in their diverse encounters with new music technology and modern aesthetics. How electronic music attracted the interest of composers from East Asia is quite varied – while composers and artists in Japan delved into new sounds and music techniques and fostered electronic music quite early on; political, sociological, and artistic conditions pre-empted the adoption of electronic music techniques in China until the last two decades of the twentieth century. Korean and Taiwanese perspectives contribute to this rare opportunity to re-examine, under a radically different set of cultural preconditions, the sweeping musical transformation that similarly consumed the West. Special light is shed on prominent composers, such as Sukhi Kang, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toru Takemitsu, and Xiaofu Zhang. Recent trends and new directions which are observed in these countries are also addressed, and the volume shows how the modern fusion of music and technology is triangulated by a depth of culture and other social forces.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Music Review.

Edited by: Marc Battier (Shenzhen University China), Kenneth Fields (Central Conservatory of Music, China)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781032090948
ISBN 10: 1032090944
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Twenty Years of Japanese Electroacoustic Music: Trends in 1990s and JSEM 2. Sneezing Toward the Sun: The Human Voice in the Musique concrète of Toru Takemitsu 3. The Creative Quest into Temple Bell Sonorities: Works of Musique Concrète by Toshiro Mayuzumi 4. Japanese Electroacoustic and Japanese Instruments 5. Electroacoustic Music Linked with Information Processing Research in Japan 6. Mayuzumi’s Electronic Studies 7. The Principles of Electronic Music (1956) 8. Electronic Music 7 Variations (1957) 9. The Power of Arterial Language in Constructing a Musical Vocabulary of One’s Own: Inheriting the Inspiration and Gene of Innovation in Electroacoustic Music from Chinese Culture 10. Characteristics of Early Electronic Music Composition in China’s Mainland 11. Exploration and Innovation, the Chinese Model of the Musicacoustica-Beijing Festival 12. Taiwanese Women Composers of Mixed Music with Their Cultural Heritage 13. Excavating the History of Electroacoustic Music in Korea, 1966–2016

Marc Battier is a composer. He is Professor of Computer Music at Shenzhen University, China, and Emeritus Professor of Musicology at Sorbonne University, France. He is cofounder of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network and founder of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network. He is also a founding member of the International Computer Music Association, honorary editor of Leonardo, and he is on the editorial board of Organised Sound and the Malaysian Music Journal. Kenneth Fields is Professor of Computer Music at the Central Conservatory of Music, China, and Adjunct Professor in Multimedia Arts and Technology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. He is the founder and CEO of Artsmesh (Networked Music Software), and the Director of the Global Center of Advanced Studies - Santa Barbara (Phonosophy). He is also on the editorial board of Organised Sound.