This thesis explores how theories of immersion may inform the creation of a musical composition. The idea behind the thesis was to find what makes a piece of music engaging for the listener, and if it was possible to device a method for achieving this. A point of departure was to gain an increased understanding of what role flow has in music listening. I wanted to explore whether the theory of flow could be used in a composition process to understand and predict how the music is perceived by a listener. By doing this I wanted to create music experiences that were immersive and emotional. The method used in this thesis was to combine the theories behind flow and research about strong listening experiences to create methods, approaches, and tools for composition. I chose to call these my composition principle. The result of this thesis was the composition principle and a piece for chamber orchestra called From Ashes. In the final discussion I concluded that in this process, the composition principle was unsuccessful in creating immersive listening experiences, but partly successful in creating emotional listening experiences. I also concluded that, in this composition process, the composition principle was not helpful in the composition process but useful in learning about composition and music in general.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ltu-94325 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Lidström, Oskar |
| Publisher | Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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