Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de observação a Identidade Visual e o ambiente cultural formado em torno dos clubs de música eletrônica da cidade de São Paulo. Procuramos compreender como essa cultura peculiar, que tem na música seu elemento transformador, se modificou e deu forma às diversas modalidades de expressão estética das quais faz uso. Objetivamos identificar os elementos definidores da linguagem adotada em seus projetos de Identidade Visual que são justificados, em parte, pela procura do estabelecimento de vínculos de afinidade com o público. Para tanto, documentamos e analisamos a produção de design e de arquitetura de interiores de clubs surgidos na cidade durante as décadas de 1980, 1990 e 2000, privilegiando, ambiências, marcas e flyers. Buscamos, ainda, revelar histórias, autores e características peculiares dessa produção, e os valores cultuados pelo meio. A significativa efemeridade que caracteriza a cena nos impõe a necessidade de delimitação criteriosa do campo da pesquisa, selecionando uma amostragem panorâmica que permite uma leitura elucidativa e reflexiva dos fatos. Para tanto, apresentamos de forma concisa a história da música eletrônica, distinguindo os elementos definidores de sua linguagem, assim como as manifestações da cultura jovem associadas a essa música e aos seus ambientes de consumo. Observa-se neles um compartilhamento intenso de conhecimentos, hábitos e gostos, que, em grande medida, configuramessa cultura particular, a Cultura Club. / This research aims to survey the visual identity and cultural environment formed around the electronic music clubs in the city of São Paulo. We seek to understand how this peculiar culture, which founded in music its transforming point, has changed and shaped the various forms of aesthetic expressions it uses. We want to identify the defining elements of the language adopted in these Visual Identity projects, which are justified, in part, by the search of establishing ties of affinity with the target public. Thus, we reported and analyzed the design production and interior architecture of the clubs built in the city during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, focusing in ambiences, brands and flyers. We also seek to reveal stories, authors and unique characteristics of this production and values practiced by this specific group. The significant efemerity that characterizes the scene imposes the need of a careful delineation of the research field, selecting a panoramic sample that allows us an informative and reflective reading of the facts. Therefore we present a brief history of the electronic music, distinguishing the defining elements of its language as well as the manifestations of a youth culture associated with this music and its consumption environments, where can be noticed in an intense sharing of knowledge, habits and tastes, which largely formed this particular culture, the club culture.

Celestial Dreams is a three-movement work for chamber ensemble. This piece employs algorithmic processes (coded in BASIC and Pascal) that generate poetic text and convert it to musical pitches. The three movements contain coherent structures that allow for the complete integration of all ensemble members into the texture and for the flexibility to have one ensemble member emerge as the musical foreground. The chamber ensemble includes strings, tape, slides, and a narrator, who recites the poetic text which forms the foundation of the piece.

This dissertation investigates the political stakes of women’s work with sound technologies engaging the body since the 1970s by drawing on frameworks and methodologies from music history, sound studies, feminist theory, performance studies, critical theory, and the history of technology. Although the body has been one of the principal subjects of new musicology since the early 1990s, its role in electronic music is still frequently shortchanged. I argue that the way we hear electro-bodily music has been shaped by extra-musical, often male-controlled contexts. I offer a critique of the gendered and racialized foundations of terminology such as “extended,” “non-human,” and “dis/embodied,” which follows these repertories. In the work of American composers Joan La Barbara, Laurie Anderson, Wendy Carlos, Laetitia Sonami, and Pamela Z, I trace performative interventions in technoscientific paradigms of the late twentieth century. The voice is perceived as the locus of the musical body and has long been feminized in musical discourse. The first three chapters explore how this discourse is challenged by compositions featuring the processed, broadcast, and synthesized voices of women. I focus on how these works stretch the limits of traditional vocal epistemology and, in turn, engage the bodies of listeners. In the final chapter on musical performance with gesture control, I question the characterization of hand/arm gesture as a “natural” musical interface and return to the voice, now sampled and mapped onto movement. Drawing on Cyborg feminist frameworks which privilege hybridity and multiplicity, I show that the above composers audit the dominant technoscientific imaginary by constructing musical bodies that are never essentially manifested nor completely erased.

This study traces the significant developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which led to the development of electronic music and increased writing for percussion. Whether by coincidence or premeditation, the field of percussion in Western culture and electronic music share many parallel aspects in their history. Carlos Chavez, Edgard Varese and John Cage foresaw a time when electronic music would allow composers to realize compositions with ease, provide new sounds to the spectrum of possible material for pieces and aid in the conception of works. Significantly, these same composers were important figures in the development of percussion composition. In many ways, Lejaren Hiller's Machine Music can be seen as a culmination of the developments which had been taking place in the history of electronic music and percussion music. A product of the innovations in both fields, it poses some formidable problems for the performers. This study will give some background into its composition, examine its structure and deal with its performance problems.

<p>The electronic music studio ”Elektronmusikstudion” (EMS) inStockholm was initiated in 1963. It has had several different managers throughout the years. EMS soon became a rather costly project. Furthermore there have been several conflicts among staff and users wich has contributed to EMS fairly turbulent history. One main conflict concerns the issue wether EMS should be a research facility or a studio for composers. The many different managers of EMS have contributed to a rather unstructured filing of records. To facilitate the understanding of the documents in this archive, and because there is very little written about EMS history, I’ve included a rather comprehensive description of EMS organizational history.</p><p>The subject of this one year master’s thesis is to describe and examine difficulties I’ve encountered in the archival process. My main issues comprise the organization and separation of some of the documents, especially those concerning the conception and organization of EMS and also the abundant technical documentation. Also the question of office of origin has been a concern.</p>

The electronic music studio ”Elektronmusikstudion” (EMS) inStockholm was initiated in 1963. It has had several different managers throughout the years. EMS soon became a rather costly project. Furthermore there have been several conflicts among staff and users wich has contributed to EMS fairly turbulent history. One main conflict concerns the issue wether EMS should be a research facility or a studio for composers. The many different managers of EMS have contributed to a rather unstructured filing of records. To facilitate the understanding of the documents in this archive, and because there is very little written about EMS history, I’ve included a rather comprehensive description of EMS organizational history. The subject of this one year master’s thesis is to describe and examine difficulties I’ve encountered in the archival process. My main issues comprise the organization and separation of some of the documents, especially those concerning the conception and organization of EMS and also the abundant technical documentation. Also the question of office of origin has been a concern.

Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 65 pages / Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: Recently, artists have begun using digital technology to create new cultural forms in the fields of art, literature, and music, and a new cultural form known as interactive digital multimedia has emerged, which combines elements from the new artistic, literary, and musical forms. Many of these artists have produced works that explore the interactive capabilities of digital technology. These interactive digital cultural forms have encouraged collaborative efforts that would have otherwise been difficult or even impossible to achieve before the advent of digital technology. In addition, this element of interactivity has redefined the traditional relationship between artist and audience. As the line between creator and consumer becomes increasingly blurred in interactive digital cultural forms, it becomes necessary to use terms such as "source artist" and "mix artist" to better define this new artist/audience relationship. / ABSTRACT: Postmodern theorists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault anticipate this new artist/audience relationship in their writings. More recent theorists, such as Margot Lovejoy, George Landow, and Paul Théberge, writing after the advent of digital technology, have suggested that interactive digital cultural forms and the changing nature of the artist/audience relationship present opportunities for cultural creation and participation that extend the opportunities afforded by traditional artistic production and consumption. Works such as the As Worlds Collide website, Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, the music of the Chemical Brothers, and Peter Gabriel's multimedia CD-ROM EVE are examples of these new interactive digital cultural forms. These works present navigable constructs (often incorporating elements culled from other source artists) that can be experienced and "re-mixed" by subsequent mix artists who choose to interact with these works. / ABSTRACT: The increased agency provided by these interactive works brings with it new responsibilities for both the source artist and the mix artist. By encouraging collaboration and experimentation, redefining the artist/audience relationship, and expanding the responsibilities of the source artist and the mix artist, interactive digital media extend the possibilities for cultural creation and participation. As digital technology develops, so do the opportunities for cultural development among society as a whole. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Die Zusammenarbeit von Merce Cunningham und John Cage beruhte auf dem grundlegenden Prinzip der getrennten Entwicklung und Erarbeitung von Klang/Musik und Tanz/Bewegung (Cunningham 1994). Für den getrennten Arbeitsprozess wurden nur Zeitklammern und die Dauer der Gesamtaufführung als gemeinsame Parameter festgelegt. Diese Trennung von Musik und Tanz bildet die notwendige Voraussetzung für die erweiterte Arbeit der Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) mit Cage und anderen Composer-Performern in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren, die die elektronischen Klänge live, in der Aufführung, generierten. Der Text untersucht das Verhältnis und die Schnittstellen der beiden Performance-Systeme.

Thesis (M.C.A.-Res.)--University of Wollongong, 2007. / Typescript. Includes 2 computer discs in front pocket of v. 2. Vol. 2 entitled: Creative component. Includes bibliographical references.