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

[Steve Adam <spectro7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mel ducasse <mel_ducasse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

Going back to the "sources" there are (for the francophones)  the
publications of  Pierre Schaeffer  ie "Solfege de l'objet sonore" and
"Traité des objets musicaux" among others. Theorists and composers
associated with or influenced by the GRM may also have relevant
material about. Most of them seem to speak and write in French
though. Hmmm

For the non-French speakers/readers (as well as the Trevor Wishart
Books which have already been mentioned) a number of articles may
suit (ie Denis Smalley's "Spectromorphology and Structuring
processes" which is arguably an Anglicized distillation of the
Schaefferian concepts.  You would probably also encounter  relevant
articles in the journal "Organized Sound" which is a Cambridge
publication.

No doubt there is a whole lot more out there...

S.

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