Duckworth Virtual Music

How the Web Got Wired for Sound
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-08730-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Virtual Music: How the Web Got Wired for Sound is a personal story of how one composer has created new music on the web, a history of interactive music, and a guide for aspiring musicians who want to harness the new creative opportunities offered by web composing. Also includes a 4-page color insert.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duckworth, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Making Music in Thin Air
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Interactive Music
Erik Satie and the Art of Boredom
The Aesthetic of Boredom
Furniture Music (1920)
Relâche (1924)
John Cage and the Charms of Chance
The Happening (July 1952)
4'33" (August 1952)
Composition as Process
Brian Eno and the Landscaping of Sound
Ambient Music
Generative Music
John Oswald and Plunderphonics
Moby and the Concept of Play

Chapter 2 Unsilent Night: A Case Study in Motion
The Boom Box Orchestra
A Living Sound Sculpture
Sonic Plasticity

Chapter 3 The Brain Opera: A Case Study in Space
The Mind Forest
The Brain Opera Performance
Net Music
The House of Music
Interactive Space

Chapter 4 Music on the web in the Twentieth Century
The League of Automatic Music Composers (1977)
The Hub (1986)
NetJam (1990)
Rocket Network (1994)
Beatnik (1993)
MusicWorld (1997)
Internet Underground Music Archives (1993)
Cinema Volta (1994)
WebDrum (1997)

Chapter 5 Cathedral: A Case Study in Time
The Web Site
The Virtual Instruments
The Cathedral Band
The 48-Hour Webcast of 2001
Internet Time

Chapter 6 Cell Phones and Satellites
Radio Net
Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
Sound Maps of Krakow
Scanner
The Mob Scene
The Next Big Thing

Chapter 7 Art and Ethics Online
Web Sound
Latency
Copyright and File Sharing
Open Source
Copy Left

Chapter 8 The Grey Album: A Case Study in Critical Mass
Black, White, and Grey
Grey Tuesday
Critical Mass in Cyberspace

Chapter 9 Virtual music
The New Landscape
Availability
Portability
Collectivity
Communication

Notes
Bibliography
The Sound of the Web at the Turn of the Century
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William Duckworth has composed over 100 works, including his Time Curve Preludes for solo piano, and the choral work, Southern Harmony. A professor of music at Bucknell University, he teaches both music history and composition. He lives in West New York, NJ, and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.