TEMPS EN TEMPS (times in time): Music for voice and instruments in a multi-track recording environment, by Marc Beaulieu, is a work meant to be experienced on many levels of perception. This analysis attempts to present the work at its most important (relevant) levels. / This work is written for a multi-track recording studio. The first section of this thesis describes the expanded possibilities of compositional procedure, orchestration and vocal/linguistic construction inherent in this particular medium. / The concept of the work is deeply rooted in the sociological thesis expounded in Alvin Toffler's "The Third Wave". These sociological 'undertones' and their bearing on the background structure of the work are examined in the following section of the thesis. / The subsequent sections of the thesis introduce the perceptual and conceptual aspects of the overall musical language, and discuss essential characteristics of the harmonic, rhythmic and linguistic fabric of the work as well as special applications of studio recording techniques such as digital sound processing, sampling and mixing. This leads to a discussion of formal structure based on three (3) conceptual waves co-existing and interacting in time.

Master of Music / The use of error by composers as a means of adding colour to a musical text has a long history, but the device is ultimately ineffective. Material whose significance is its incongruity is incorporated by recontextualization, and in time, becomes familiar and unremarkable. ‘Glitch’ is a stylistic mannerism within electroacoustic composition that emerged in the late 1990s. Glitch, or ‘microsound’, as it is known in an academic context, observes the conventions of music concrète, drawing on material sampled from the real world, and fashioning this into sonic narratives. Its signature is the ‘sound of failure’, sonorities characteristic of electronic devices malfunctioning or mis-used: clicks, crackles, distortions, fractured digital files. Glitch/microsound has already diminished from a movement to a mannerism, but its legacy is a refreshment of our palette of sonorities, and an interrogation of the very act of listening. This essay is short examination of the use (and nature) of noise a musical ingredient and the significance of glitch/microsound for electroacoustic composers. It concludes that this ‘style’ is little more than a nuance, and that its advent and advocacy were less to do with a new musical movement, than with a new generation of electronic composers attempting to distinguish itself.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2007. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Communication Arts, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Title from title screen. Includes bibliographies. Thesis minus video and audio files also available online at: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35367.

Thesis (M.M.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Mark Engebretson; submitted to the School of Music. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 27, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).

Dissertation (D.M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Directed by Randy Kohlenberg; submitted to the School of Music. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 13, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-54).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Jan. 12, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references: P. 111-117.

Computer software for music has made a significant impact by affecting the perspective of music making, music creating, music education, music production, and music distribution. This impact continues to evolve as individuals seek new avenues of musical expression. Through the papers included in this document, I seek to explore the range and impact of computer software in music, especially software related to music creativity and composition. The first paper is a review of literature concerning the effect of software on creative thought, creativity in music, and the influence this has had in musical composition. In this paper I also explore various techniques of composition, including linear and non-linear processes, which make use of the computer and music software. The second paper is a case study examining the use of music software in a compositional process. In this paper I explore the experiences of the student who was learning to compose music using music software. It offers the perspectives of the students as they developed through each step of the compositional process. It is important that the reader understand the distinction between composition and improvisation as discussed in these two papers. Simply stated, the act of composing is described as the process of forming, making, creating, or constructing music with various elements, phrases, or sections of music. Composing music is often associated with a skill set that captures inspiration and transforms it into a permanent record. Improvisation is the act of creating and playing new music without specific forethought or prior preparation. It can also be define as a skill of creating music in a spontaneous, impromptu, or impulsive way.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-08-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:34:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mendes_ds_me_ia.pdf: 2189081 bytes, checksum: e5a221ee7c7fac1bd8978c913d023cfd (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A obra de Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) é contornada por uma série de questões que concernem tanto ao âmbito das especulações próprias do fenômeno musical, quanto àquelas que permeiam este discurso. Dentre estas está a relação entre os procedimentos composicionais seriais, tal como ocorre nas primeiras obras, e outros situados em um âmbito mais alargado de possibilidades, onde os primeiros preceitos são remodelados e estendidos. Sob estas asserções proponho diálogos que versem sobre os vários desdobramentos da organização do discurso musical de sua música eletrônica. Como exemplo utilizo sobretudo Gesang der Jünglinge (1955- 1956) e Hymnen (1966-1967), mas também perfaço algumas incursões em sua obra instrumental e em seus primeiros estudos eletrônicos. Desta forma busco auxílios para uma melhor compreensão dos procedimentos composicionais que percorrem seu labor entre os anos de 1950 e 1966, sob o viés compositivo e auditivo. / The work of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) is contoured by several approaches that concern the range of the explorations of the very musical phenomena, and some others that permeate the musical discourse. Among them there is the relation between the serial procedures, as in the early works, and the procedures within a wider range of possibilities, where the first concepts are reviewed and extended. On these assertions, I propose a dialog that verse on the several implications on the organization of musical discourse in Stockhausen’s electronic music. I use Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-1956) and Hymnen (1966-1967) as main examples, but all the same I do some incursions in his instrumental works, as so as in his electronic studies. Thus I search for subsidies to a better understanding of the compositional procedures used along 1950 and 1966, through the compositional and aural aspects.

Orientador: Solange Bigal / Banca: Adriana da Rosa Amaral / Banca: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Júnior / Resumo: Uma escuta contemplativa dos acontecimentos sonoros do Psychedelic Trance. Agenciadas por Deleuze e Guattari, desde a gênese da música eletrônica, as afecções bergonianas nietzscheanas e espinosanas se desdobram em Psytrance, uma composição afectivo-sonora da mídia eletrônica. / Abstract: A contemplative audition of the sonorous events of the Psychedelic Trance. By the texture of Deleuze and Guatarri meaning, since the eletronic music genesis, the Bergson, Nietzsche and Espinosa affections unfold in Psytrance, an affective-sonorous composition of the eletronic media. / Mestre