No scholarship yet exists on Erin Gee’s extensive Mouthpieces catalogue, aside from her own program notes and non-academic reviews of her work. My dissertation endeavors to remedy this gap through analyses of two formative works by Gee, Mouthpiece I (1999/2000) for solo voice and SLEEP (2008), an opera in 12 scenes for two voices, choir, and mixed ensemble. This dissertation is the offspring of two seemingly disparate theoretical influences: Pierre Schaeffer’s Traité des objets musicaux and Marion A. Guck’s definition of analysis as interpretation. In Chapter 1, I introduce Schaeffer’s reduction to the objet sonore as an analytical methodology, then interrogate the pros and cons of this method through the lens of feminist and post-humanist scholarship as well as sound studies focusing on vocal physiology. Chapter 2 considers the historical legacy of experimental non-semantic vocality in the United States, and considers how Afrodiasporic vocal techniques in jazz and gospel weave their way into Eurodiasporic experimentalism generally and Gee’s music in particular. I also ask why these hugely prevalent genres in both commercial and academic music circles fail to be included in standard scholarly narratives of non-semantic vocality in the United States. In Chapter 3, I propose an idiosyncratic typology and typomorphology for Mouthpiece I as an analytical framework for understanding the building blocks of Gee’s music more generally. I than take a broader look at the relationship between form and materials in SLEEP to consider how Gee intertwines semantic and non-semantic vocality to replace the operatic norms of high drama and individual virtuosity with an intimate, collective sonic ecology that presents both human and non-human on stage at the same time.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:42:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luis Henrique Fanti.pdf: 1595724 bytes, checksum: a9548bc502a849946a1a9bf7ae6a7687 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-11 / Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie / The current paper has the goal to trace the relationship between Francis Schaeffer's thinking in relation to the counter-culture; the counter-culture movement from the 60's, especially related to the years of 67-69 with the 'beatniks', Flower Power, Timothy Leary and its more remarkable unfoldings; and, finally, the counter-cultural expressions in drug usage in The Beatles record, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and in the Teatro do Absurdo (The Absurd Theater). We have the art as the expression of the spirit of that time in the development of the human thinking, which we treat here manifested in the daily life of each time. So we intend to close this paperwork showing some aspects that make possible the convergence of all these elements in the XXI century, tracing along the way the consequences of this way of thinking and dealing with the world. / O presente trabalho presta-se a traçar, a estabelecer uma relação entre o pensamento de Francis Schaeffer ao movimento da contracultura; o movimento contracultural da década 60 principalmente relativo aos anos de 67-69 com os beatniks, o Flower Power, Timothy Leary e seus desdobramentos mais marcantes; e, por fim, as expressões contraculturalistas no uso das drogas, no álbum dos The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band e no Teatro do Absurdo. Tendo a Arte como a expressão do espírito das épocas do desenvolvimento do pensamento humano que tratamos aqui, manifestadas no cotidiano de cada época. Procuramos fechar nosso estudo demonstrando alguns aspectos que tornam possível a convergência de todos esses elementos na produção da cultura do homem do século XXI, traçando, ao longo do caminho, as consequências desta forma de pensar e atuar no mundo.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vitor Augusto Andrade Albiero.pdf: 857839 bytes, checksum: c0e25238fa968155fb8e8ec30b5b6310 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-24 / Francis Schaeffer is considered by many one of the greatest Christians of the 20th century. Upset by the divorce between nature and grace provoked by the preeminence of irrationality contained in contemporary thought, the author encounters the decline and lack of hope that imprint the modern man regarding the concept of objective and universal truth. In defiance of this very declaration, Francis Schaeffer tries to rescue the balance that should involve the elements in the relation faith and reason without, however, inclining towards rationalisms nor even, on the other hand, toward a religious existentialism. Verifying the crisis and dilemma in which the modern man finds himself in philosophy, arts, general culture and theology, engendered by the respective abandonment of universal concepts and by the adoption of a post-modern perspective of a fragmented reality, Francis Schaeffer proposes a confrontation of this crisis from an epistemic source found only in the Sacred Scriptures. Herewith, the objective of this research is to demonstrate that the author tries to compose his proposed solution exclusively aligned with the Biblical Christianity, keeping in mind the influence that he received from the presupposition and principles of the reformed thought. Thus, one tries to identify how Francis Schaeffer applies the reformed view regarding the unified field of knowledge in his diagnosis and proposal for confronting the paradigm crisis, to the point of claiming the inexistence of the epistemological crisis for the reformers, as well as for the biblical. Nonetheless, in order to solve the actual epistemological crisis in which the modern man finds himself, the author highlights the vital and imperious importance regarding the epistemic response emerging from the reformed concept of Biblical Revelation, which ends up, wherefore, offering an answer equally metaphysical and moral, also necessary for dissolving the paradigm crisis. / Francis Schaeffer é considerados por muitos um dos maiores cristãos do século XX. Contrariado com o divórcio entre a natureza e a graça , provocado pela preeminência da irracionalidade que envolve o pensamento contemporâneo, o autor se depara com o declínio e a desesperança que marcam o homem moderno quanto ao conceito de verdade objetiva e universal. Em oposição a esta constatação própria, Francis Schaeffer busca resgatar o equilíbrio que deve envolver os elementos da relação fé e razão sem, contudo, inclinar-se para o racionalismo ou, por outro lado, polarizar-se para o existencialismo religioso. Ao constatar a crise e dilema em que o homem moderno se encontra nas áreas da filosofia, artes, cultura geral, e teologia, gerados pelo abandono do conceito de universais e pela adoção da perspectiva pós-moderna da realidade fragmentada, Francis Schaeffer propõe o enfrentamento desta crise a partir da fonte epistêmica encontrada somente nas Escrituras Sagradas. Deste modo, é objetivo desta pesquisa demonstrar que o autor compõe sua proposta de solução exclusivamente pautada no Cristianismo Bíblico tendo em vista a influência que recebeu dos pressupostos e princípios do pensamento reformado. Assim, busca-se identificar como Francis Schaeffer aplica a visão reformada acerca do campo unificado do conhecimento em seu diagnóstico e proposta de enfrentamento da crise de paradigmas, a ponto de afirmar a inexistência da crise epistemológica para os reformadores, bem como para os cristãos bíblicos. Todavia, a fim de solucionar a atual tensão epistemológica em que o homem moderno se encontra, o autor ressalta a importância imprescindível e imperiosa quanto à resposta epistêmica partir do conceito reformado de Revelação Bíblica, o que acaba, por conseguinte, fornecendo igualmente a resposta metafísica e moral, também necessárias para o esvanecendo da crise de paradigmas.

La thèse en question trace un parcours comparatif sur les approches créatrices et technologiques qui ont été développées au GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) et à l’EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) de 1965 à 1980. Cette recherche vise à étudier les interactions principales entre les concepts musicaux des pionniers des musiques électroacoustiques en France et en Suède, Pierre Schaeffer et Knut Wiggen et l’évolution des directions artistiques au sein de leur institutions. Notre étude sera traitée en fonction de deux approches méthodologiques empruntées par la linguistique, diachronique et synchronique : dans la première partie de la thèse, nous ferons une synthèse historique des genres musicaux qui ont influencé les directions artistiques du GRM et de l’EMS ainsi que la comparaison de leur organisation institutionnelle concernant la création musicale, la recherche technologique et les réflexions de Schaeffer et de Wiggen. Par la suite, la deuxième partie de la thèse porte sur l’analyse musicale des œuvres sélectionnées dans le corpus du GRM et de l’EMS. Cette étude synchronique s’appuie ainsi sur le problème de l’analyse des musiques acousmatiques. En suivant la théorie tripartite de J. Molino développée par J.J. Nattiez et S. Roy concernant les niveaux poïétique-neutre-esthésique d’une œuvre d’art, une reconstruction d’une trace visuelle est réalisée dans le cadre de l’analyse du niveau neutre au moyen des symboles graphiques de Lasse Thoresen inspiré par la typo-morphologie de Schaeffer. Les résultats tirés de cette analyse serviront de justification avec les données poïétiques externes pour la comparaison finale des significations hypothétiques des pièces. En conclusion, le but de cette thèse est d’explorer une méthode d’analyse inspirée par la sémiologie tripartite pour une meilleure compréhension des musiques acousmatiques et d’établir une documentation historique sur le(s) style(s) musicaux qui prédominent majoritairement les années 1960 et 1970 au GRM et à l’EMS en fonction du développement technologique. / The current research is a comparative study investigating the development of creative and technological approaches at GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) and EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) from 1965 to 1980. The thesis examines the main interactions between two pioneers of electroacoustic music in France and in Sweden, namely, Pierre Schaeffer and Knut Wiggen and the evolution of artistic directions within their institutions. The comparative method borrows two main perspectives from linguistics, such as diachronic and synchronic. To this direction, the first part of the thesis evaluates a sort of historical synthesis of musical genres, which lead the artistic directions of those two studios, including their institutional organization, musical creation, technological research as well as Schaeffer’s and Wiggen’s musical concepts. The second part of the thesis focuses on pioneer works analysis in order to explore closely compositional ideas and the problem of acousmatic music analysis. The analysis method is based on Jean Molino’s tripartite theory developed by J.J. Nattiez (poietic/neutral/esthesic level of an art work) and Stéphane Roy, which contributes to analyze the compositional structure, organization and the composer’s style related to technological equipment of the studios. The first step of music analysis reconstructs a sort of transcription within the neutral level analysis by means of Lasse Thoresen’s graphical symbols inspired by Schaeffers’s typo-morphology. The second step seeks to confront the neutral level results with external poietic information in order to explore and to compare some hypothetical significations of analyzed musical pieces. In conclusion, the end goal is to determine a methodology inspired by the tripartite theory for an in-depth understanding of acousmatic music analysis and to establish a historical documentation on French and Swedish electroacoustic music within the development of technology.

Les recherches entreprises sur Olivier Messiaen présentent encore de nombreuses lacunes bien que cet artiste figure parmi les compositeurs les plus connus et les plus influents du XXe siècle. Puisant à des sources primaires négligées dans les Archives nationales, la Médiathèque du CNSMDP, la fondation Sacher et des collections privées, cette thèse se penche sur trois aspects mal connus de cette figure phare de la modernité : la formation musicale de Messiaen au Conservatoire national de Paris pendant les années 1920 et les liens de sa musique avec les traditions pédagogiques de cet établissement, le développement de sa technique d’emprunt, de transformation et de juxtaposition des musiques préexistantes dans son œuvre pendant les années 1930 et 1940 et, enfin, ses expériences dans les domaines de la musique microtonale et de la musique concrète. Ce travail met en évidence plusieurs œuvres oubliées du compositeur et reconsidère notre compréhension de sa manière de composer. / Despite his place of privilege among the best-known and most influential composers of the twentieth century, the state of current research on Olivier Messiaen leaves much room for development. This study focuses on three understudied aspects of this major modern figure drawing from neglected primary sources in the French National Archives, the Mediathèque of the Paris Conservatory, the Sacher Stiftung, and private collections, notably 1º Messiaen’s eductation at the Paris Conservatory during the 1920s and the relationship of his music to the institutions pedagogical traditions, 2º the development of Messiaen’s technique of borrowing, transforming and juxtaposing pre-existing music in his compositions during the 1930s and 1940s, and finally, 3º Messiaen’s experimentation in the domains of microtonal music and musique concrète. The current study brings to light many of the composer’s forgotten or lesser-known works and reconsiders our understanding of how he composed.

Jean-Philippe Rameau affirme que l'harmonie a pour principe la basse fondamentale. Il soutient également que cette basse fondamentale est quelque chose qui peut se sentir dans la pratique musicale. Néanmoins, il ne considère pas ce sentiment comme une justification suffisante pour son principe. En conséquence, il n'explique pas précisément en quoi ce sentiment peut consister, et préfère donner des arguments physico-mathématiques.La présente thèse traite du problème suivant: qu'est-ce donc que sentir la basse fondamentale, et ce sentiment est-il réellement inapte à justifier ce concept? Pour y répondre, il faut prêter attention aux opérations par lesquelles le lecteur de Rameau est invité à cultiver sa sensibilité à l'harmonie. Il s'agit de commenter ces opérations à l'aide de la phénoménologie de Husserl. Pour produire une phénoménologie de la basse fondamentale, il importe de décrire les sons avec plus de précision que Rameau ne le fait dans ses traités. Cela peut être réalisé grâce au solfège généralisé de Pierre Schaeffer.Mais pour cela, un travail préparatoire est nécessaire. L'introduction vise à montrer qu'il n'y a rien d'étrange, pour traiter de l'harmonie du dix-huitième siècle, à se servir des travaux de Schaeffer. Les quatre premiers chapitres ont pour but de clarifier le concept de basse fondamentale. Les quatre derniers visent à produire une phénoménologie de certains aspects du son, de l'harmonie et de la basse fondamentale. Il apparaît alors que le sentiment peut effectivement justifier la décision de considérer la nasse fondamentale comme le principe de l'harmonie; mais une telle justification n'a pas toute la force que recherchait Rameau. / Jean-Philippe Rameau has claimed that the fundamental bass is the principle of harmony. He also presents this fundamental bass as something which can be felt in musical practice. Nevertheless, he doesn't consider that feeling as a sufficient justification for his principle. As a consequence, he doesn't explain precisely what that feeling consists in, and he prefers to develop some physical and mathematical arguments to prove his theory.This thesis deals with the following issue: what is it like to feel the fundamental bass, and does this feeling really offer no sufficient justification for that concept? To answer those questions, attention has to be paid to the operations by which Rameau's reader is supposed to cultivate his own sensibility to harmony; and they shall be commented with the help of husserl's phenomenology. To provide a phenomenology of the fundamental bass, it is necessary to describe sounds more precisely than Rameau does in his treatises. Such a description shall be achieved thanks to Pierre Schaeffer's generalized solfeggio.But to make it possible, some preliminary work is required. An introduction shall argue that there is nothing strange in using Schaeffer's work to deal with harmony of the eighteenth century. The first four chapters are intended to clarify the concept of fundamental bass. The last four chapters are intended to produce a phenomenology of some aspects of sound, harmony and fundamental bass. At the end of this thesis, it appears that feeling can justify the fundamental bass to be considered as the principle of rules; but this justification does not have the strength Rameau was looking for.

This thesis aims at developing conceptual and methodological tools in order toadapt sound within the textile design area. Occupational groups working with soundare to a large extent problem driven. Accordingly, textile designers working withsound- affecting properties of textiles concentrate on their dampening qualities. Theambition with this research project is to make suggestions how textile designers canwork practically with textile sound design, in a more nuanced way.The overall aim of the thesis is to develop a vocabulary to make textile designersable to express the sound affecting qualities of textiles in a language full of nuances.As a starting-point the thesis briefl y describes commonly used methods andprocesses used to describe the expressiveness of a design, followed by a morethoroughly analyze of the textile design process illustrated by a practical example.These studies constitute a foundation to make it possible to see in what way thesemethods and processes will be affected when sound is added as new design tool.By studies of two sound design models, the fi rst attempts to develop a vocabularyconcerning how to describe sound affecting qualities of a textile are developed.Research focusing on language issues, especially on the development of conceptualtools done at the research institute CRESSON, provides descriptive soundconcepts, “sound effects”, embracing the interaction between human and his soundenvironment. These concepts are followed by a model of how to describe just asound or “sound object” in “itself” (not in relation to anything else), developed byPierre Schaeffer. These theoretical models have been complemented with empiricalstudies in form of a survey, named LISTEN. Interviews were performed from aphenomenological perspective. A number of informants were asked to tell aboutthe sound environment and single sounds occurring at their working places. Theinterviews were interpreted from a phenomenographic perspective. A number ofdesign projects are fi nally presented as practical examples of different ways to workwith textiles and sound.The theoretical models provided by Schaeffer have been used to make the fi rstsystematic attempts to describe sound environments; sounds and textiles soundaffecting properties.Since the model presented by Schaeffer is developed to be used within musicalcomposition the concepts have to be additionally modifi ed to be a useful tool withinthe textile design area. The thesis presents just the fi rst attempts to use this model.The next step to take in the research project is to adjust the theoretical systems ofCRESSON and Schaeffer to suit the special area of textile design. The interactiveideas of a sound-affecting textile will also be a subject of further development.

Within the framework of education of Music Technology for 16-18 year olds there exists a lack of thorough teaching and learning resources sufficient for a broad understanding of the basics of audio and electronic synthesis. This PhD submission outlines the role of the composer in the classroom in addressing this fundamental issue through the development of a curriculum containing pedagogic composition and interactive software. There will be a discussion of the principles of pedagogic methodologies developed by various composers and of the current model of learning provided in Music Technology Alevel. The programming tools used to develop the software are investigated, as well as an exploration into the current learning psychology that informed the curriculum development. This submission consists of a written thesis that accompanies a set of compositions and a multimedia DVD, which includes the software for the CuDAS curriculum. Within this software is contained a presentation of a series of interactive tutorials alongside compositions in the form of scores, recordings and interactive exercises. There is also include written supporting documentation and sound files of techniques and recordings from contrasting genres of music history.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de marcar uma viés de recepção sugerido por uma das obras mais representativas da musique concrète: a Symphonie pour un Homme Seul. Propõe delimitar, através da abordagem especificamente desta obra, a poética do uso da voz e dos sons corporais nesta prática musical que sofreu uma influência direta da criação dramática radiofônica por via do desvio do ambiente de criação do rádio para a música, efetuado por seu criador, Pierre Schaeffer. O viés da recepção levantado na obra e destacado pela pesquisa consiste em uma Escuta da Intimidade, conceito que se refere a um vetor de identificação na escuta trazido por via de traços sonoros deixados pelas manifestações do corpo e inscritos na obra. Este vetor pode se dar, seja por uma noção imaginária de proximidade entre a emissão virtual dos sons e o lugar da escuta, seja pela sugestão de uma intencionalidade no ouvinte que toma por seus os sons escutados, como se os tivesse emitido. Estes traços da intimidade são trazidos pela influência da poética radiofônica e são inscritos de forma contínua no seu suporte - a gravação sonora. A partir da análise das estratégias composicionais de um dos movimentos da obra, Erotica, e da comparação de seu original com uma versão realizada em performance, espera-se salientar as particularidades de sua inscrição sonora, as quais decorrem na escuta da intimidade que pontuamos aqui. / Our aim in this work is to point out a possible strategy of reception enabled by one of the most representative works of Musique Concrète: the Symphonie pour un homme seul. It also proposes to understand the use of a \"poetics of the voice\" and of bodily sounds in such musical practice, which are the result of the influence of the radiophonic drama via a departure from the media of radio to music operated by its creator, Pierre Schaeffer. The specific strategy of reception brought by the Symphonie and pointed out in our work consists in a Listening of Intimacy. This concept refers to a kind of listening that identifies bodily traces left inscribed in the music. This vector of listening can be seen as much as an imaginary proximity between the sounding sources and the listener´s position, as a suggestion of an intentionality on the listener, which takes as yours the sounds he listened as if they came from his own emission. Those intimacy traces are brought together by the influence of the radiophonic poetics and are inscribed in the material support of the works - the audio recording. From the analysis of one of the movements of the piece, Erotica, and the comparison of the orginal version with a transcription for performance with live musicians, we hope to put forward the specificities of its (sound inscription, which results on the listening of intimacy that we hereby present. viii

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-159).