Living electronic music - Emmerson, Simon (Ashgate, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index
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
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