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Re: [microsound] spectralist CD?



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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