Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 7923107 bytes, checksum: bde4204dd3d768dc6537b4104666ebd6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present research aims to insert sound objects, independent musical entities, in the context of a complex compositional system, here called Object-Timbre System. This system was divided in three different components, sonorous unit, syntagm and envelop, in which the sound object concept elapses. The sintagm and the envelope form the two levels of contextual connection. Although focusing each component as an autonomous mean, this autonomy is not an absolute one, because in order to form syntagm and envelop it is necessary the amalgamation of the sonorous units and the syntagm. Therefore the connection is an important transport of the Object-Timbre System, and will be focus from the perspective of the Gestalt psychology, specifically from the Gestalt laws. The major or minor presence of the Gestalt laws in the construction of the component forms what we call vector of contextual connection. This vector was divided in high, average and low degree. Timbre was the musical agent from which these connections have been establisched. In this way the model constructed here inserts between the atomistic thinking, as it deals with the sonorous object, and the holistic or ecological thinking, due to the necessary connections to create components in a superior hierarchic level. For such reason we used the concept of near-decomposability created by Herbert Simon in a complex systems context. Five pieces was composed for strings: Tractus Mobilis I.a/b (for solo violin), Ideoplastie II (for violin and violoncello), Vortex Diagonal (for violin, viola and violoncello), Interceptação (string quartet) and Araneae (string quintet). / A presente pesquisa buscou inserir objetos sonoros, entidades musicais autônomas, no contexto de um sistema composicional complexo, denominado Sistema Objeto-Timbre (SOT). Esse sistema é dividido em três componentes, nos quais perpassa o conceito de objeto sonoro, que são: a unidade sonora, o sintagma e o envelope. O sintagma e o envelope formam os dois graus de conexão contextual. Apesar de enfocar cada componente como autônomo, essa autonomia é relativa, pois, para formar o sintagma e o envelope, é necessário que haja a união das unidades sonoras e sintagmas, respectivamente. As conexões são partes importantes do SOT, e são abordadas a partir da psicologia da Gestalt, em particular a partir das leis da Gestalt. O timbre foi o agente musical a partir do qual se buscou estabelecer essas conexões. Dessa forma, a abordagem aqui utilizada se insere num meio-termo entre o pensamento atomístico, pois parte do objeto sonoro, e a abordagem holística ou ecológica, pelas conexões necessárias à criação de componentes de nível hierárquico superior. Por tal motivo, utilizou-se o conceito de quase decomponibilidade, criado por Herbert Simon e aplicado a sistemas complexos. Como resultado, foram compostas cinco peças para cordas, a saber: Tractus Mobilis I.a/b (para violino solo e viola solo), Ideoplastie II (para violino e violoncelo), Diagonal Vortex (para violino, viola e violoncelo), Interceptação (quarteto de cordas) e Araneae (quinteto de cordas).

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This work largely concerns the roles of Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell in the history of English keyboard music as reflected in their keyboard suites. Both, as composers of the Restoration period, integrated the French style with the more traditional English techniques--especially, in the case of Purcell, the virginalist heritage-- in their keyboard music. Through a detailed examination of their suites, I reveal differences in their individual styles and set forth unique characteristics of each composer. Both composers used the then traditional almain-corant-saraband pattern as the basis of the suite, to which they added a variety of English country dances. At the same time they modified the traditional dances with a variety of French and Italian idioms, thereby making distinctive individual contributions to the genre.

For Unto Us is a one movement work for soprano and orchestra. The text, by the composer, describes the thoughts and feelings of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she watches the crucifixion. Mary's process of faith is traced through the sequence of dramatic events which proceed and follow the crucifixion. The work explores symbolic instrumentation, juxtaposition of harmonic languages, and extended techniques for performance and notation. The setting of the text combines traditional operatic idioms with new elements in the music. The duration of this dramatic, quasi-operatic scene is approximately nine minutes.

Electroacoustic music is often regarded as not being sufficiently accessible to the general public because of its sound-based abstract quality and the complexity of its language. Live electronic music introduces the figure of the performer as a gestural bodily agent that re-enables our multimodal perception of sound and seems to alleviate the accessibility dilemma. However, live electronic music generally lacks the level of detail found in studio-based fixed media works, and it can hardly be transferred outside the concert hall situation (e.g. as a video recording) without losing most of its fresh, dynamic and unpredictable nature. Recent developments in 3D simulation environments and game audio technologies suggest that alternative approaches to music composition and distribution are possible, presenting an opportunity to address some of these issues. In particular, this Portfolio of Compositions proposes the use of real and virtual space as a new medium for the creation and organisation of sound events via computer-simulated audio-sources. In such a context, the role of the performer is sometimes assumed by the listener itself, through the operation of an interactive-adaptive system, or it is otherwise replaced by a set of automated but flexible procedures. Although all of these works are sonic centric in nature, they often present a visual component that reinforces the multimodal perception of meaningful musical structures, either as real space locations for sonic navigation (locative audio), or live visualisations of physically-informed gestural agents in 3D virtual environments. Consequently, this thesis draws on general game-audio concepts and terminology, such as procedural sound, non-linearity, and generative music; but it also embraces game development tools (game engines) as a new methodological and technological approach to electroacoustic music composition. In such context, space and the real-time generation, control, and manipulation of assets combine to play an important role in broadening the routes of musical expression and the accessibility of the musical language. The portfolio consists of six original compositions. Three of these works–Swirls, Alice - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, and Alcazabilla–are interactive in nature and they required the creation of custom software solutions (e.g. SonicMaps) in order to deal with open-form musical structures. The last three pieces–Singularity, Apollonian Gasket, and Boids–are based on fractal or emergent behaviour models and algorithms, and they propose a non-interactive linear organisation of sound materials via real-time manipulation of non-conventional 3D virtual instruments. These original instrumental models exhibit strong spatial and kinematic qualities with an abstract and minimal visual representation, resulting in an extremely efficient way to build spatialisation patterns, texture, and musical gesture, while preserving the sonic-centric essence of the pieces.

Orientadores: Paulo José de Siqueira Tiné, Maria José Carrasqueira Dias de Moraes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-28T08:39:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_ViniciusBastos_M.pdf: 4078852 bytes, checksum: 8d976dfab947524a738a217c3bd1ed44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Dividido em três capítulos, este trabalho constitui-se de uma investigação de aspectos do estilo pianístico e composicional do multi-instrumentista Egberto Gismonti tendo como material de estudo o álbum "Alma" (EMI-Odeon, 1986), obra em que o pianista executa suas composições ao piano solo com adição de alguns sintetizadores. Para isso, foram realizadas transcrições integrais das interpretações pianísticas presentes, disponíveis na seção de anexos , e, posteriormente, análises que conduziriam à identificação de aspectos recorrentes nessas performances. Desse modo, podemos encontrar no primeiro capítulo informações sobre o disco propriamente dito. Informações essas que nos trarão à luz um panorama sobre sua concepção e realização. Somando-se críticas e depoimentos encontrados em jornais e livros, em períodos próximos ao lançamento, às informações coletadas com alguns dos participantes de sua confecção, pudemos traçar e exemplificar aspectos relacionados ao momento da carreira em que se encontrava o pianista além de compreender o "ambiente" que auxiliou os envolvidos a alcançarem os resultados técnicos e musicais até hoje celebrados, abrindo campo para o aprofundamento na música. O segundo capítulo é constituído das análises propriamente ditas. A partir das partituras geradas, as nove peças do disco: Baião Malandro, Palhaço, Loro, Maracatu, Karatê, Frevo, Água e Vinho, Infância e Cigana foram observadas sob vários pontos (melhor descritos nas considerações e metodologia), sendo alguns dos resultados apresentados individual e separadamente sob o prisma dos aspectos mais relevantes encontrados nessas análises. O terceiro capítulo constitui-se de uma síntese dos elementos recorrentemente resultantes das análises, visando externar algumas das características mais usuais além dos procedimentos mais utilizados pelo pianista para "dar vida" às suas composições por meio de suas próprias performances, elementos esses que pudemos agrupar como indicativos de uma idiossincrasia musical / Abstract: Divided into three chapters, this work consists of a research about pianistic and compositional style of the multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti having as study material the album "Alma" (EMI-Odeon, 1986), a work in which the pianist plays his compositions in a solo piano with some synths added. For this, full transcriptions of the actual piano interpretations were realized, available in the attachments section, and then, analyzes that lead to the identification of recurrent aspects in these performances. Thus, we can find in the first chapter information on the album itself. Such information that will bring us an overview of its conception and realization. Adding criticism and testimonies found in newspapers and books, at close times to the release, to the information collected with some of the participants in its making, we illustrate aspects related to the career moment in which was the pianist in besides comprehending the "environment "that helped those involved to achieve the celebrated technical and musical results , opening the field to the deepening in music. The second chapter consists of the actual analysis. From the generated scores, nine disk parts: Baião Malandro, Palhaço, Loro, Maracatu, Karatê, Frevo, Água e Vinho, Infância e Cigana were observed from various points (best described the considerations and methodology) and some of the individual results and presented separately in the light of the most relevant aspects found in these analyzes. The third chapter consists of an synthesis of recurrently resulting elements of the analysis, aiming to externalize some of the usual features performed by the pianist to "give life" to their compositions through the performances, elements we could group as indicative of a musical idiosyncrasy / Mestrado / Música, Teoria, Criação e Prática / Mestre em Música

This dissertation investigates the process of collaboration and the application of both notational and technological schemes to integrate elements of contemporary composition and tap dance as a consolidated art form. Overall, this document gives an overview of choreographer/composer collaborations in Western classical music; movement notation; and ultimately analyzes my original music—a live set for tap dancer, live musicians and electronics—entitled Digital Tap Dance. Altogether, this project represents the culmination of music and dance as a compelling intermedia collaboration. By (1) researching different practices of composer-choreographer collaborations, (2) notating rudiments for tap dance, (3) creating software for tap dancers, and (4) composing original music for tap dancers, this dissertation will create options for composers and choreographers alike in composition and improvisation.

Astronomy and music are both fundamental to cultural identity in the form of various musical styles and calendrical systems. However, since both are governed by incontrovertible laws of physics and therefore precede cultural interpretation, they are potentially useful for insight into the common ground of a shared humanity. This paper discusses three compositions inspired by different aspects of astronomy: Solstitium e Equinoctium, a site-specific composition for four voices and metal pipes involving an inclusive communal musical ritual and sonic meditation; Helios, a short symphonic work inspired by helioseismology; and Perspectives, a piece for soprano and percussion based on a logarithmic map of the universe.

Audiovisual concatenative synthesis is an analysis-driven granular technique using a corpus of multimedia data to sequence audio and video streams on a microtemporal level. This text outlines my development of this technique as a tool for multimedia composition, using my work, Replica, as a case study. The paper illustrates how the concepts of granular structure, gesture capture, and replication are integral not only to the software but to the architecture of the composition. In doing so, machine learning approaches to music and visual art are reviewed and related to my personal compositional practice. Additionally, I attempt to show how audiovisual concatenative synthesis provides a composer with strategies for shaping one's sense of time through disorienting audiovisual cues and tightly organized counterpoint between sound and image, stage and screen, and the real and virtual.

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