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THE COMPOSITION OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC

 

 

BY RODOLFO CAESAR

 

UEA

1992

 

©"This copy of the dissertation has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with the author and that no quotation from the dissertation, nor any information derived therefrom, may be published without the author's prior written consent."

Acknowledgements.

 

This work was made possible thanks to a grant from the National Council for Development and Research of Brazil (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa - CNPq).

I am very grateful to my supervisor Dr. Denis Smalley for his advice, help, and exhaustive editings.

Many thanks to Rodrigo Velloso for his opinions and hospitality; and to Carole Gubernikoff and Marcia Cavalcante for their explicit and implicit participation.

I am indebted to Patrick Ozzard-Low, who very generously volunteered for long overnight discussions and rewritings of topics.

 

I thank especially my wife, Marcia Gerheim, for having been the most caring listener and the most interested interlocutrice for the many versions of this paper, which was written for her.

Table of Contents

Table of Compositions and Examples on DAT

Foreword

INTRODUCTION

Objectivity and Legitimacy

Habeas Corpus

The Ears

At Night

Fleeting Identity

Hidden Causality

Chapter 1- VERBAL SETTINGS

Material and Structure

Non-linear Response and the Spill

Between Matter and Form

Chapter 2- CONNECTING PIECES

A Paradox

Obstacles

Norfolk Flint

Introduction to the Stone

Neolitica

Canto

Chapter 3- DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS

Canons/Chaos

Canon

Electroacoustic?

Polyphony

Chapter 4- LOOP

Volta Redonda

(cont.)

Splice

APPENDICES

Technical Considerations

A Canon

Glossary

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

Books

Articles, Reviews, Newletters and Manuals

Recommended Listening

Table of Compositions and Examples on DAT



DAT ID:... Title duration
01- INTRODUCTION TO THE STONE 08'50"
02- Second Section of INT. TO THE ST. 00'42"
03- NEOLITICA 07'10"
04- Sequenced Little Avalanches 00'06"
05- Crossing Line 00'03"
06- Looped Avalanche 00'29"
07- CANTO 13'35"
08- CANONS/CHAOS 20'46"
09- Canon 01'50"
10- VOLTA REDONDA 19'20"
11- Helix 00'19"
12- Recoiling Spiral 00'18"
13- Volutes 00'23"





 

The pieces INTRODUCTION TO THE STONE, NEOLITICA and CANTO form the series NORFOLK FLINT.

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