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Re: [microsound] How to... compose electroacoustic music

On Sonic Art is /very/ anchored to Wishart's ideas about sound and music (which is, I suppose, good or bad depending...), but the book itself is probably the most in-depth commentary on electroacoustic composition I've ever seen. I suspect you could learn a lot by going back to Xenakis' Formalized Music, but it's a tough read if you're not a math person.

- Scott

On Sep 27, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Peter Plessas wrote:

Hi,

both books by Trevor Wishart "Audible Design" and "On Sonic Art" may be
a starting point. They focus on transformation of (recorded) sound
mainly, and focus a lot on what you might call "gesture" in
electroacoustic composition.

regards,

Peter

* mel ducasse <mel_ducasse@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-09-27 09:22]: 
Hi,

Does anyone have any suggestions/reading lists for books and articles
which deal specifically with the gestures and 'vocabulary' of
electroacoustic music? I'm not so interested in text which deal with
software processes; I'd like to find something that looks at
composition techniques which were developed before computers,
techniques which seem (to me)to have become a fairly standard set of
gestures.

Thanks





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