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Living electronic music / Simon Emmerson

Author
Emmerson, Simon, 1950-
Published
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Living presence -- The reanimation of the world : relocating the live -- The human body in electroacoustic music : sublimated or celebrated? -- Playing space : towards an aesthetics of live electronics -- To input the live : microphones and other human activity transducers -- Diffusion-projection : the grain of the loudspeaker.
Summary
Drawing on recent ideas that explore new environments and the changing situations of composition and performance, Simon Emmerson provides a significant contribution to the study of contemporary music, bridging history, aesthetics and the ideas behind evolving performance practices. Whether created in a studio or performed on stage, how does electronic music reflect what is live and living? What is it to perform 'live' in the age of the laptop? Many performer-composers draw upon a 'library' of materials but others refuse to abandon traditionally 'created and structured' electroacoustic work. Ly.
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ISBN
9780754686804 (electronic bk.)
0754686809 (electronic bk.)
9780754655466 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780754655480 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0754655466 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0754655482 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1351217852
9781351217859
1351217860
9781351217866
1351217844
9781351217842
1281099295
9781281099297
9786611099299
6611099298
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
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