Language(s): English

Keyword(s):

Analysis ,  Discourse within Electroacoustic Music ,  Electroacoustic Music ,  Electronic Music

Abstract:

In this essay, the author notes that little attention has been focused on the practical aesthetic problems of electronic music composition while an impressive amount of print and verbiage have been devoted to technical areas that only support the higher level concerns of compositional aesthetics. In addressing this issue the author attempts to understand what appear to be highly intuitive processes on the part of the listener and particularly on the part of the composer. Through this approach he makes some observations and generates some questions that may be useful to listeners, composers and teachers of electronic music.

All references of the same author:

(English)

Keane, David (1979). Some Aspects of Teaching Electronic Music Composition
Keane, David (1980a). Computer Music: Some Problems and Objectives in Applied Aesthetics
Keane, David (1980b). Tape Music Composition
Keane, David (1981). The Quest for ‘Musically Interesting' Structures in Computer Music
Keane, David (1984). The Bourges International Festival of Experimental Music: A Retrospective
Keane, David (1985). Architecture and Aesthetics: The Construction and the Objectives of Elektronikus Mozaïk
Keane, David (1986). At the Threshold of an Aesthetic
Keane, David (1989b). The Quest for 'Musically Interesting' Structures in Computer Music
Keane, David (2000). Electroacoustic Music in Canada: 1950-1984