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Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instruments. [ 1]
Oct 21, 2021 · The advancement of technology in the mid-twentieth century led avant-garde composers to use electronic devices to alter the sounds of acoustic instruments. This new style of music became known as electroacoustic.
Nov 21, 2016 · We had a short chat with postgraduate electroacoustic composer James Surgenor who guides us through some of the basic elements of electroacoustic music. Join...
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Many date the formal birth of electroacoustic music to the late 1940s and early 1950s, and in particular to the work of two groups of composers whose aesthetic orientations were radically opposed. The Musique concrète group was centered in Paris and was pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer; their music was based on the juxtaposition and transformation of ...
National associations
1. GRM — Groupe de recherches musicales / Musical Research Group, based in the National Audiovisual Institute(INA) (Paris) 2. CEC— Canadian Electroacoustic Community / Communauté électroacoustique canadienne 3. SAN— Sonic Arts Network is a UK-based organisation that promotes and explores the art of sound 4. SEAMA— The Society for Electroacoustic Music in Australasia 5. HELMCA– Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association 6. SEAMS— Society for Electro Acoustic Music in Sweden 7. SEAMUS...
Other institutions
1. IRCAM — Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique/ Acoustic/Music Research and Coordination Institute (Paris) 2. CECH— Electroacoustic Community of Chile 3. empreintes DIGITALes— Montréal-based label for recordings of musique concrète, acousmatic music, electroacoustic music 4. EMS— Electroacoustic Music in Sweden 5. Musiques & Recherches— Belgian association dedicated to the development of electroacoustic music 6. CCRMA— Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (...
Books
1. Enore Zaffiri, Due scuole di musica elettronica in Italia, Milan: Silva, 1968, 137 pp. (Italian) 1. Terence Dwyer, Making Electronic Music: A Course for Schools, 3 vols., ills. Eric Tranter, London: Oxford University Press, 1975, 51 & 39 & v+39 pp. Textbook. 1. Michel Chion, Guy Reibel, Les musiques électroacoustiques, Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, and Paris: Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), 1976, 339 pp. (French) 1. Herbert A. Deutsch, Synthesis: An Introduction to the History, Theory...
Essays
1. Herbert Eimert, "What Is Electronic Music?", Die Reihe1 (1957), pp 1-10. 1. E. Ungeheuer, "Wie die elektronische Musik “erfunden” wurde…: Quellenstudie zu Werner Meyer-Epplers musikalische Entwurf zwischen 1949 und 1953", Kölner Schriften zur Neuen Musik 2, eds. Johannes Fritsch and Dieter Kämper, Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1992. (German) 1. Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Electroacoustic Performance Practice", trans. Jerome Kohl, Perspectives of New Music34:1, Winter 1996, pp 74-105.
Bibliographies
1. Vernon Martin, Bibliography of Writings on Electronic Music, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964. 1. Lowell M. Cross, A Bibliography of Electronic Music, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967. 1. Ann Phillips Basart, Serial Music: A Classified Bibliography of Writings on Twelve-Tone and Electronic Music, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. 1. Electroacoustic music in Central and Eastern Europe: Bibliography, Monoskop, 2004ff.
Electroacoustic music in CEE, East Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia.May 16, 2018 · Of course, with so many musicians using electronic elements in their work, and with so much music now falling under the description of “electroacoustic,” it’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect where the “electro” ends and the “acoustic” begins. Here are 10 artists blurring that line.
Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music was published in 1982 by Prentice-Hall. It was the first book to combine the history, basic technology, and analysis of electro-acoustic music, along with interviews with important composers in the field.
