20710386-1 - New musical technologies: Aesthetics and Utilizations 1

Historiographic, aesthetic and pragmatic rudiments in the creation and interpretation of electronic and electroacoustic music with a primary reference to soundtrack and multisensoriality

Curriculum

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Mutuazione: 20710386-1 ESTETICHE E PRATICHE DELLE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE MUSICALI 1 in DAMS Teatro, musica, danza LM-65 Scuderi Cristina

Programme

Aesthetics and practices of new music technologies. For a definition.

New technologies and "electroacoustic music."

Electroacoustic technological inventions between the 1800s and early 1900s, technologies of audio recording and reproduction. Telharmonium, Aetherophone, Sphärophon, Ondes Martenot, Trautonium and other instruments.

The Futurists and "L'arte dei rumori"; Luigi Russolo ("Serenata per intonarumori e strumenti"; "La pioggia").

Radio broadcast in Europe. Pierre Schaeffer and the musique concrète ("Cinq études de bruits"). Edgard Varèse ("Desérts"). The birth of the GRM and Byle's subsequent direction. Acousmatic music. Luc Ferrari and Bernard Parmegiani ("La crèation du monde").

Karlheinz Stockhausen and elektronische Musik at the WDR in Cologne. Employment of serial principles ("Studio I", "Studio II", "Gesang der Junglinge"). Franco Evangelisti in Cologne and his "Incontri di fasce sonore."

American Tape Music. Vladimir Ussachevsky ("Fantasy in space"; "Underwater Waltz") and John Cage ("Imaginary landscapes"; "William's Mix"). The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Core Documentation

CHADABE J., Electric Sound. The Past and Promise of Electronic Music, Upper Saddle River (NJ), Prentice Hall 1997.

COLLINS N., J. d’Escrivan, The Cambridge Companion To Electronic Music, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017.

DEMERS J., Listening Through the Noise, New York, Oxford University Press 2010.MANNING P., Electronic and Computer Music, Oxford-New York, Oxford University, Press 2013.

Attendance

Weekly lessons

Type of evaluation

Oral exam

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

Aesthetics and practices of new music technologies. For a definition.

New technologies and "electroacoustic music."

Electroacoustic technological inventions between the 1800s and early 1900s, technologies of audio recording and reproduction. Telharmonium, Aetherophone, Sphärophon, Ondes Martenot, Trautonium and other instruments.

The Futurists and "L'arte dei rumori"; Luigi Russolo ("Serenata per intonarumori e strumenti"; "La pioggia").

Radio broadcast in Europe. Pierre Schaeffer and the musique concrète ("Cinq études de bruits"). Edgard Varèse ("Desérts"). The birth of the GRM and Byle's subsequent direction. Acousmatic music. Luc Ferrari and Bernard Parmegiani ("La crèation du monde").

Karlheinz Stockhausen and elektronische Musik at the WDR in Cologne. Employment of serial principles ("Studio I", "Studio II", "Gesang der Junglinge"). Franco Evangelisti in Cologne and his "Incontri di fasce sonore."

American Tape Music. Vladimir Ussachevsky ("Fantasy in space"; "Underwater Waltz") and John Cage ("Imaginary landscapes"; "William's Mix"). The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Core Documentation

CHADABE J., Electric Sound. The Past and Promise of Electronic Music, Upper Saddle River (NJ), Prentice Hall 1997.

COLLINS N., J. d’Escrivan, The Cambridge Companion To Electronic Music, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017.

DEMERS J., Listening Through the Noise, New York, Oxford University Press 2010.MANNING P., Electronic and Computer Music, Oxford-New York, Oxford University, Press 2013.

Attendance

Weekly lessons

Type of evaluation

Oral exam