Re: [microsound] spectralist CD?

[Massimiliano Viel <mail@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I would  actually generalise it more, by considering the "spectral 
technique" as a tendency to use electronic synthesis/analysis 
techniques to write music for (mainly) acoustic instruments.
In fact  other synthesis besides the additive are used, even without 
a Fourier analysis... ring modulation or FM, for example, or Open 
Music/Patchwork data.

In my opinion, "spectral technique" is no (much) more than a very 
very well refined technique of instrumentation, with some (i.m.h.o., 
of course) overestimated thinking about form. It was more important 
to exit the (cultural/economical) impasse left by Boulez and put in 
career some other way of thinking music (and some people too) in 
France...

Of course that period left also some excellent music!


m

>  >the music that is based
>  >on the harmonic spectrum of the sounds.
> > in other words... they construct their pieces
> > after analyzing particular spectra from concrete sounds or
> > acoustic instruments....and then they
> > apply them into their orchestration.
> -Well actually, they transcribe the frequencies
>  appearing in their analysis (through the Fourier Series)
>  to notes available on the instruments in the classical
>  orchestra. Resulting in microtonal pitched music.
>
> > it is timbre-based music
> -I think that this not correct:
>  timbre contains more elements than Fourier Analysis
>  shows, there is the general amplitude curvature, but
>  also the grouping of overtones, the amount of noise
>  and quit important: the attack and decay.
>
> AvS

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