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Meta-Xenakis

Author : Sharon Kanach
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805112279
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Meta-Xenakis written by Sharon Kanach and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century’s most significant creative figures. It presents a transcontinental engagement with his life and output, focusing as much on the impact of the questions he posed as on the accomplishments of his body of work. This volume evolved out of the multi-modal, international Meta-Xenakis Consortium’s artistic and scholarly events commemorating his centenary. Informative and comprehensive, contributions span subjects including music composition, creative pedagogy, aesthetics, game theory, architecture, and the social and political contexts in which Xenakis operated. The book is organized in eight sections, centered on different facets of Xenakis’s work and reception. It includes a digital archive of audio and visual media from the events staged throughout 2022, as well as computer software. Bringing into conversation the diverse perspectives and insights of researchers, musicians and artists, this volume serves as a foundational resource for future research on the life and work of Xenakis. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across a range of disciplines including music, architecture, cybernetics and computation, and the digital arts.

Theatre in the Dark

Author : Adam Alston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474251196
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Theatre in the Dark written by Adam Alston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing a range of possible critical and theoretical approaches. This book considers the aesthetics and phenomenology of dark, gloomy and shadow-strewn theatre performances, as well as the historical and cultural significances of darkness, shadow and the night in theatre and performance contexts. It is concerned as much with the experiences elicited by darkness and obscured or diminished lighting as it is with the conditions that define, frame and at times re-shape what each might 'mean' and 'do'. Contributors provide surveys of relevant practice, interviews with practitioners, theoretical reflections and close critical analyses of work by key innovators in the aesthetics of light, shadow and darkness. The book has a particular focus on the work of contemporary theatre makers – including Sound&Fury, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath, Lundahl & Seitl, Extant, and Analogue – and seeks to deepen the engagement of theatre and performance studies with what might be called 'the sensory turn'. Theatre in the Dark explores ground-breaking areas that will appeal to researchers, practitioners and audiences alike.

Xenakis

Author : James Harley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135874956
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Xenakis written by James Harley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years Iannis Xenakis has been one of the major figures in contemporary music, this is the first ever study of his music published in English.

Source Readings in Music History

Author : William Oliver Strunk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393037524
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Source Readings in Music History by : William Oliver Strunk

Download or read book Source Readings in Music History written by William Oliver Strunk and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.

The Literature of Exclusion

Author : Andrew C. Wenaus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793614644
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Exclusion written by Andrew C. Wenaus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war. With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists sought to “signify no thing.” Today, data also operates autonomously. However, rather than dismantling tradition, data organizes, selects, combines, quantifies, and simplifies the complexity of actuality. Like Dada, data also signifies nothing. While Dadaists protest with purpose, data proceeds without intention. The individual in the early twentieth century agonizes over the alienation from daily life and the fear of being converted into a cog in a machine. Today, however, the individual in twenty-first-century supermodernity merges, not with large industrial machinery, but with the processual and procedural logic of programming with innocuous ease. Both exclude human agency from self-narration but to differing degrees of abstraction. Examining the work of B.R. Yeager, Samuel Beckett, Jeff Noon, Kenji Siratori, Mike Bonsall, Allison Parrish, and narratives written by artificial intelligence, Wenaus considers the threshold of sensible narration and the effects that the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open, hyper-contingent, unprescribed alternatives for self-narration.

Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy

Author : Alfia Nakipbekova
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622736575
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy written by Alfia Nakipbekova and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be one of the most revolutionary composers of the twentieth century, Iannis Xenakis pushed the boundaries of classical music. As a largely self-taught composer, Xenakis drew from his technical training in engineering and architecture to produce music that had the ability to both unnerve and enrapture his audiences. Motivated by his intense study of many scientific disciplines, he employed the mathematical rules of the natural world to test the traditional rules of counterpoint and harmony, and to explore the spatial texture of sound, colour and architecture. The Romanian-born Greek-French composer transformed twentieth century classical music for decades to come, leaving behind an undeniable legacy that continues to inspire and even shock listeners to this day. By approaching Xenakis’s creative output from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this edited volume seek not only to situate Xenakis’s music within a larger cultural, social and political context but also to shed light on contemporary issues surrounding his work. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of Xenakis’s music (in the context of particular works) and musical philosophy: mathematical, structural, performative, as well as the genesis of his compositional style and distinctive sound. Xenakis’s artistic presence on the contemporary music scene, his political influence during the tumultuous protests in Paris ’68, and his first piano composition, Herma, are also explored in-depth providing new insights into the life and work of this avant-garde figure. This book will appeal to contemporary music researchers, students and scholars and may also be of interest to artists, performers and composers, alike.

Intimate Voices: Shostakovich to the avant-garde. Dmitri Shostakovich : the string quartets

Author : David Clampitt
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463223
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Voices: Shostakovich to the avant-garde. Dmitri Shostakovich : the string quartets written by David Clampitt and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.

Athens

Author : John Gill
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908493496
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Athens written by John Gill and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece in 1834. During the intervening centuries it was occupied by almost every mobile culture in Europe: from its earliest likely settlers, tribes from what is now Albania, to Nazi forces during the second World War, and in between by successive waves of Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Slavs, Goths, Venetians, French, Catalans, Turks, Italians, Bulgarians and the clans of various kings and tyrants of the region's early city-states. There has been a structure on its 'high city', the acropolis, since at least the bronze age, although it was subsequently altered by successive occupiers, becoming a fort, castle, temple, mosque, church and even a harem. its 'Golden age' peaked in the fifth century BCE, with the great building projects of Pericles and Themistocles, and its later history is one of a city already nostalgic for its past, although at a time when other European cities had yet to begin constructing a past. Its standing as the birthplace of democracy and western civilisation, while based in fact, is largely a romantic fantasy dreamt up by nineteenth-century north European artists and intellectuals: democracy has a checkered history in Athens, and 'western civilisation' was an amalgam of many cultures. The city now is a jigsaw of pieces from its past, where you can still walk along streets laid by Romans and Ottoman Turks, and where the city's population is almost constantly refreshed by newer waves of arrivals. John Gill's cultural guide explores the origins, development and contemporary face of Athens, offering an accessible analysis of its social history, architecture and representation in painting, literature and film. Looking at the role of religion, migration and popular culture, its in-depth coverage of the city, past and present, goes beyond conventional guidebooks to provide a fresh insight into its living identity.

Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950

Author : Charlotte de Mille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144382819X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950 written by Charlotte de Mille and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Modernism is a collection of essays which re-evaluates the significant connections between the disciplines of music, fine art and architecture in the period covering the emergence and flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Combining established scholars in the field with those at the start of their careers, this book presents an exceptional cross-section of European and American modernism through a series of detailed case-studies. Avoiding a simplistic engagement with cross- or inter-disciplinarity, the focus of attention centres on themes that became key to modernist artists and critics: association, perception, representation, subjectivity, writing and language. Accordingly, this book re-thinks modernism itself in the light of both the fine arts and music, to advocate a multiplicity of modernisms from which it is necessary for scholars to construct their own narratives.

The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music

Author : Alex McLean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190655712
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music written by Alex McLean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point. Joining dozens of emerging and established scholars alongside leading practitioners in the field, chapters in this Handbook both describe the state of algorithmic composition and also set the agenda for critical research on and analysis of algorithmic music. Organized into four sections, chapters explore the music's history, utility, community, politics, and potential for mass consumption. Contributors address such issues as the role of algorithms as co-performers, live coding practices, and discussions of the algorithmic culture as it currently exists and what it can potentially contribute society, education, and ecommerce. Chapters engage particularly with post-human perspectives - what new musics are now being found through algorithmic means which humans could not otherwise have made - and, in reciprocation, how algorithmic music is being assimilated back into human culture and what meanings it subsequently takes. Blending technical, artistic, cultural, and scientific viewpoints, this Handbook positions algorithmic music making as an essentially human activity.

Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945

Author : Elizabeth West Marvin
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580460965
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945 written by Elizabeth West Marvin and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents various interdisciplinary articles to bridge the gulf between classical and popular music.

From Xenakis's UPIC to Graphic Notation Today

Author : Richard Barrett
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 : 9783775747417
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book From Xenakis's UPIC to Graphic Notation Today written by Richard Barrett and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the legacy of Xenakis' innovations in music notation for contemporary composers Trained in mechanical engineering, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) transformed mathematical models into architectonic musical entities. In the late 1970s Xenakis developed a digital apparatus that rendered waveforms drawn on a tablet as musical compositions. The device was called UPIC, or Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu, named for the French contemporary music research institute that Xenakis had helped found a decade earlier. The device proved to be an essential tool for the development of contemporary music--a version of the software is still used by today's composers. Featuring archival materials, this book examines the origins of Xenakis' UPIC. It also serves as a compositional tool: embedded QR codes allow readers to create their own sound-images from UPIC compositions.

Maternal-Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines

Author : Vincenzo Berghella
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351780484
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Maternal-Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines written by Vincenzo Berghella and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of an acclaimed text reviews the evidence for best practice in maternal-fetal medicine, to present the reader with the right information, with appropriate use of proven interventions and avoidance of ineffectual or harmful ones, and by rating the evidence of the key references. The information is presented in the right format by summarizing evidence succinctly and clearly in tables and algorithms. The aim is to inform the clinician, to reduce errors and "to make it easy to do it right." The volume can be purchased separately or together with a companion volume on Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines (set ISBN 978 1 4987 4742 4).

Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042026715
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange as it may seem, Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote, Marc Forster’s film Stranger than Fiction, Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pere Borrell del Caso’s painting “Escaping Criticism” reproduced on the cover of the present volume and Mozart’s sextet “A Musical Joke” all share one common feature: they include a meta-dimension. Metaization – the movement from a first cognitive, referential or communicative level to a higher one on which first-level phenomena self-reflexively become objects of reflection, reference and communication in their own right – is in fact a common feature not only of human thought and language but also of the arts and media in general. However, research into this issue has so far predominantly focussed on literature, where a highly differentiated, albeit strictly monomedial critical toolbox exists. Metareference across Media remedies this onesidedness and closes the gap between literature and other media by providing a transmedial framework for analysing metaphenomena. The essays transcend the current notion of metafiction, pinpoint examples of metareference in hitherto neglected areas, discuss the capacity for metaization of individual media or genres from a media-comparative perspective, and explore major (historical) forms and functions as well aspects of the development of metaization in cultural history. Stemming from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, the contributors propose new and refined concepts and models and cover a broad range of media including fiction, drama, poetry, comics, photography, film, computer games, classical as well as popular music, painting, and architecture. This collection of essays, which also contains a detailed theoretical introduction, will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: intermediality studies, semiotics, literary theory and criticism, musicology, art history, and film studies.

Architectures of Sound

Author : Michael Fowler
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 303561329X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Architectures of Sound written by Michael Fowler and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects are used to designing visually. In order to expand their basic design tools, this book explores the interactions between sound, space, hearing, and architecture. To this end, the author uses contemporary and historic buildings and projects, but also fictional, philosophical, and theoretical approaches – the idea is not only to define sound as a source, but also as an instrument of architectural space. By introducing a metatheory of "critical hearing", designers are able to acoustically test their projects and contribute to their design with auditive input, already at the design stage.

Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship

Author : Andreas Sonning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000924726
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship written by Andreas Sonning and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship: Concert Dramaturgy and Project Development for the Performing Arts offers a conceptual and applied introduction to the musical and dramaturgical challenges involved in developing and producing concerts. Drawing from over three decades of real-world experience and a range of international case studies, the author explores new models for cooperation between artists, cultural institutions, governments, and businesses, arguing for the importance of rooting the concert production process in artistic and ethical values. The book presents essential knowledge and techniques to meet the demand for music and stage performances across genres, arenas, formats, and distribution channels. Relevant to a wide range of students and professionals in music and the performing arts, Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship marries theory with practice, providing a framework for readers to develop the creative entrepreneurial practices essential for success in today’s music industry.

Time in Contemporary Musical Thought

Author : Jonathan D. Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134350937
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Time in Contemporary Musical Thought written by Jonathan D. Kramer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection create an interdisciplinary perspective. While attempting no unified vision, it approaches the subject from a variety of perspectives: aesthetics, psychology, sociology, ethnomusicology, compositional practice, and semiotics. While all composers are necessarily concerned with time, and while all theorists deal at least indirectly with music as a temporal phenomenon, the study of musical time has been fragmented. It is appropriate that no clear paradigm, model or direction has yet emerged in the study of muscial time, since time itself is both pervasive and elusive.