URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_OSO

Language(s): English

Keyword(s):

Microsound ,  Digital Aesthetics ,  Glitch ,  Granular Music ,  History of Electroacoustic Music

Abstract:

Microsound is an emerging approach to music composition and analysis which places emphasis on extremely brief time-scales, usually a tenth of a second or less, as well as an integration of this micro-time level with the time-levels of sound gestures, sections, movements and whole pieces. This paper summarises some of the technical issues involved in microsonic analysis/composition, traces a history of microsonic techniques in contemporary music, and examines some of its aesthetic implications in a social context.

All references of the same author:

(English)

Thomson, Phil (2005). Soundscape Composition, Globality, and Implicated Critique