Dr DUNCAN MACLEOD DUNCAN.MACLEOD@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Negotiating space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music
MACLEOD, DUNCAN
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Abstract
Over the past 10 years spatial music has been an emergent trope within my practice that has exponentially grown from an initial interest in spectator immersion to engender a broad range of applications ranging from underpinning musical structure through to clarifying texture (Harley 1998).
Spatial music, namely sound localisation as a compositional parameter (Brant 1967) has been in use, albeit modestly, since the renaissance. It is in the past sixty years however that we have seen the most substantive output of spatial music, spurred on in part by the use of spatialisation in acousmatic and electro-acoustic music. In spite of this the use of space in acoustic composition is still largely overlooked (Blesser & Salter 2007). Indeed Alvin Lucier observes that although considerable effort is put into the conception, generation and notation of music relatively little thought is given to the actual propagation of sound, to the extent that ‘We have been so concerned with language that we have forgotten how sound flows through space and occupies it’ (1995). As such, this paper will examine and critically reflect upon the use of space as a compositional parameter drawing upon my own practice as well as key exponents of spatial music, namely Henry Brant, John Cage, Benedict Mason and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Citation
MACLEOD, D. (2017, November). Negotiating space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music. Paper presented at Sounding out the Space: an International Conference on the Spatiality of Sound, Dublin Institue of Technology, Ireland
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
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Conference Name | Sounding out the Space: an International Conference on the Spatiality of Sound |
Conference Location | Dublin Institue of Technology, Ireland. |
Start Date | Nov 2, 2017 |
End Date | Nov 4, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jun 4, 2021 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5625001 |
Additional Information | Conference website: http://www.soundingout2017.com/ |
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