[music-dsp] Book on electroacoustic music composition

[Ross Bencina]

Joe Chang <joe at hahaha3.com> wrote:
> Do you know a book to recommend to me?
> How about Simon Emmerson's The Language of Electroacoustic Music ?

If you havn't read "The Language of Electroacoustic Music" then you should.
It's a long time since I've read it, however Emerson's 'relation of language
to materials' and Smalley's 'spectromorphology and structuring processes'
chapters come immediately to mind as relevant.

'Audible Design' by Trevor Wishart is another book to consider - less
philosophical than LEM. 'On Sonic Art' is an earlier book by Trevor Wishart.

If you read French I think there is a recent book edited by Francois Bayle
(but don't quote me on that.)

These books are more concerned with "aesthetic sonics" than "musical
machinery". There have been some good articles by Denis Smalley and Trevor
Wishart (perhaps others too) in "Perspectives on New Music" journal if you
have access to an archive of past issues. Other journals well worth tracking
down are "Orgainsed Sound" and the Canadian Electroacoustic Society (CEC)
journal/newsletter(?) "Contact!".

<kranning at miau-miau.com> wrote:
> It could be argued that compositional techniques exist independently
> from specific genres or tools...

Indeed. My feeling is that certain techniques, or modes of compositional
modelling have been brought into focus by Music Concrete and its
descendants.

Best wishes,

Ross.


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