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Form and analysis in live-performed electroacoustic music

Zheng, Victor

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Title
Form and analysis in live-performed electroacoustic music
Author(s)
Zheng, Victor
Issue Date
2024
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Fieldsteel, Eli
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Fieldsteel, Eli
Committee Member(s)
  • Taylor, Stephen
  • Tipei, Sever
  • Taube, Heinrich
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • Electroacoustic Music
  • Live Processing
  • Fixed Media
  • Augmented Performer
  • Bruno Maderna
  • Philippe Manoury
  • Dan Trueman
  • Musica su due Dimensioni
  • Jupiter
  • Nostalgic Synchronic
  • bitKlavier
Language
eng
Abstract
Live-performed electroacoustic music refers to music that incorporates both an acoustic and electronic component in its composition. The integration of acoustic and electronic composition represents a bridge between traditional and modern musical techniques, making works incorporating this integration receptive to formal approaches taking inspiration from, but not wholly rooted in, traditional descriptors of form. In its own right, this integration constitutes a fast-evolving field of electroacoustic music as technology continues to innovate on methods to consolidate the human performer and their interaction with the electronics in a manner conducive to real-time music performance. This document will synthesize existing methods of analyzing electroacoustic media to focus specifically on the medium of live-performed electroacoustic music and devise a wide-reaching, general framework to use in examining their musical form, by describing categories and techniques relevant to the medium. It will then demonstrate the framework’s applications by analyzing three live-performed electroacoustic works in depth and searching within them for conceptions of musical form unique to the medium. The discovery of such formal conceptions will contribute to the definition of live-performed electroacoustic music beyond that of a medium but of a musical genre.
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Copyright 2024 Victor Zheng

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