Experimental music since 1970
By: Jennie Gottschalk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781628922486; 9781628922479; 9781628922493; 9781628922516
Subjects: Avant-garde (Music); History and criticism; Music
Description: What is experimental music today? Recent attempts to define or identify examples of experimental music have been cautious and subjective, offering very little guidance to anyone with an interest in this field of activity. Is experimental music a historical event that refers only to John Cage and his influence, or does it have a greater spread and longevity? The development of this musical practice over the last 45 years here merits a fresh definition and discussion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining features of experimental music. Introduction ; Indeterminacy ; Silence; title: Scientific approaches. Acts of discovery ; Harmonic relations ; Playing with numbers ; Learning by making ; Finding hidden sounds; title: Physicalities. The physicality of performance ; Resonant spaces ; Objects as instruments ; From shape to sound; title: Perception. The position of the listener ; The perception of time; title: Information, language, and interaction. Treatments of sonic information ; The sounds of living beings ; Language ; Interaction; title: Place and time. Mappings ; Site-specific works ; Histories; title: Advocates.