Composing Electronic Music

A New Aesthetic

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Curtis Roads: Composing Electronic Music (2015, Oxford University Press, Incorporated)

496 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2015 by Oxford University Press, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-0-19-537324-0
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3 stars

Okay. A lot of it felt repetitive, and like a list of methods rather than interesting commentary on those methods. (And too many comparisons to architecture for me.) I was expecting more about the aesthetic philosophy of music (even if only the author's particular philosophy) than this provided: e.g., not what granular synthesis is, but why one would use it, what it provides aesthetically. There wasn't much of that.

Subjects

  • Electronic music
  • Music, instruction and study