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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