Ideally, I’d like to get more, hence I’m making a repeat (and final) call:
As part of my ongoing research into Electroacoustic (E/A) music I’m currently soliciting anecdotal information from E/A music composers and listeners. In the first instance responses to this call will be analysed and presented at the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference (EMS08 – Paris) in June of this year (2008). An abstract of this paper can be found @ http://www.ems-network.org/ems08/abstract.html#W
I’m soliciting responses to the following:
1) How did you first become interested in E/A music?
2) Why do you choose to compose E/A music?
3) Why do you choose to listen to E/A music?
4) What is your favourite (or one of your favourite) E/A works and most importantly, what is it about this particular work(s) that appeals to you?
I’m hoping for responses that are personal accounts, as a significant element of my research concerns investigating E/A music as a socio-cultural phenomenon, looking towards revealing some of the humanistic traits that are at work in E/A music.
The definition of E/A music I have in mind is broad in the first instance: music in which electronic technology, now primarily computer-based, is used to access, generate, explore and configure sound materials, and in which loudspeakers are the prime medium of transmission. (Source – Simon Emmerson, Denis Smalley (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians – Second Edition. Ed. Stanley Sadie.) However, the E/A music I am focussing on is that which does NOT feature to any great extent in the popular music corpus (perhaps the term ‘sonic art’ is apropos).
Please would you take the time to answer the questions above and return them to me (off list please) at: rweale@dmu.ac.uk. There is no word limit to these responses, indeed the more the better. If possible, please send responses as ‘word.doc’ or preferably ‘Rich Text Format (.RTF)’ attachments.
For information concerning ethical practice with respect to this research please visit http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rjw/why.html
If you would like more information about the research, please contact me directly (telephone or Email).
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Dr. Rob Weale
CEPA Fellow – Music, Technology and Innovation
Faculty of Humanities
PACE Building
Room 1M.01
De Montfort University
Leicester, UK
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tel: +44 (0)116 207 8131
Personal websites –
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~rjw/
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