00 Preface
01 The electronic medium
02 Aesthetic foundations
03 The nature of sound
04 Creating sound materials
05 Sound transformation
06 Processes of rhythm
07 Pitch in electronic music
08 Articulating space
09 Multiscale organization
10 Sonic narrative
11 Generative strategies
12 The art of mixing
13 References
Appendix A List of sound examples
Index
Curtis Roads is an award-winning composer and researcher who teaches electronic music composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He co-founded the International Computer Music Association and served as an editor/associate editor of Computer Music Journal for 23 years. The author of numerous books, his electronic music set POINT LINE CLOUD won the Award of Distinction at the 2002 Ars Electronica.
"a worthwhile addition to electronic music literature." -- Richard
Barrett, Journal of Sonic Studies
"Clearly formulated starting points engage the reader in more
challenging concepts and interesting lines of enquiry,
contextualising the many perspectives surrounding each topic. This
well researched treasure chest of quotes, references, and examples
illustrates an insightful text which the author, himself with
decades of experience as a transcontinental practitioner, has
enriched with personal reflections that in turn allow the reader to
do the same."-Natasha
Barrett
Curtis Roads' book is a kind of prism that reevaluates the field of
music composition in the light of the new technologies of the 21st
century. He builds a thousand bridges between different approaches
to attributes like pitch, rhythm, time scales, and even sonic
narratives in order to help us to understand present music
practices." -Horacio Vaggione, composer, Professor Emeritus, the
University of Paris VIII
"A rich and enjoyable survey for the computer musician, ranging
from the objects of compositional manipulation to the performative
aspects of the shaping of sensory experience. This book will be of
interest not only to the electronic music composer, but also to the
performing musician, and the general reader interested in the
process and principles of musical design." -Elaine Chew, Professor
of Digital Media, Queen Mary University of London
"[I]f you want a great overview of just about any aspect of the
field of electronic music, you'll find it in this book. Clearly
written, with a minimum of mathematics, it's the kind of book you
can refer to time and time again."--SoundBytes
"Time is passing, and when I came back to Paris, I read [the]
wonderful book Composing
Electronic Music : A New Aesthetic. Congratulations! It is a great
book! I totally agree with the main thesis of this book, clarifying
that electronic music has been opening a new full area on the
history of music, and putting a clear separation between the area
of 'acoustic' music, and the area of 'electronic' music. What a
pleasure to read a book which explains to us all the foundations of
electronic music, all of its researchs, its true history, etc...I
hope that [the] book is going to be
translated in French, because the French music situation needs it
absolutely!" -- Jean-Claude Eloy, French composer of instrumental,
vocal and electroacoustic music
"The text does have the primary motivational benefit that at many
moments it makes the reader want to go and compose. Aside from the
joy of crafting pure sound at many structural levels, it provokes
new organizational ideas in reaction to theory."--Music and Letters
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