Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music

Contents
Preface
1. Narrative Soundscape Composition: Approaching Jacqueline George’s Same Sun
	Introduction
	Analysis
	Interpreting the Extramusical
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2. Analysis of Gayle Young’s Ice Creek (2018)
	Ice Creek (2018)
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
3. Hildegard Westerkamp’s Beneath the Forest Floor (1992)
	Setting the Stage
	Beneath the Forest Floor (1992)
	Thus …
	Notes
	References
4. The Contributions of Charles Dodge’s Speech Songs to Computer Music Practice
	Introduction
	The Musical Language of Speech Songs
	The Musical Treatment of Text in Speech Songs
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
5. The Musical Imagination of Knut Wiggen
	Introduction
	Background and Context
	EMS Tools for Composition
	Music
	Sommarmorgon
	Summary
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
	Appendix A: Overview of MusicBox Components
	Appendix B: Descriptions of the Boxes Used in Sommarmorgon
	Appendix C: Wiggen’s Acoustic Compositions
6. Exploring Compositional Choice in the SalMar Construction and Related Early Works by Salvatore Martirano
	Introduction
	Brief Description and General Principles of the SalMar Construction
	Aspects of Martirano’s Compositional Thinking and Sensibilities
	Early Compositional Schemes Presaging System Designs
	SalMar Construction—Concepts and Principles Emerging in Its Development
	Programmable Pseudorandom Number Generators in the SalMar Construction
	SalMar Construction First Principles and Compositional Schemata
	Performing and Performances with the SalMar Construction
	Collective Composition, Recordings, and Duets
	Post SalMar
	Note on Archiving Electronic Music Artifacts
	Concluding Commentary
	Notes
	References
	Appendix: Note on Mentions of the SalMar Construction in Other References
7. Invisible Influence: An Analysis of Bülent Arel’s Fantasy and Dance for Five Viols and Tape
	References
8. Nuo Ri Lang by Zhang Xiaofu
	The Nuo Ri Lang God
	The Life of Nuo Ri Lang
	Electroacoustic Music as Seen by Zhang Xiaofu
	The Road to Nuo Ri Lang
	Sounds Identified in the Score
	Analysis
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
9. Seeds and Mutations: Connections and Divergences in the Materials of Unsuk Chin’s Xi
	Introduction
	Missing Information on the Electronics
	An Overview of Sections A through F
	The Sound Archetypes
	Gesture Categories: Morphologies
	Sound Categories: Spectra
	The Tonal Center(s) of Xi
	Resolution in Xi
	Intentional Error
	Drones: The Spaces Between
	Speculative Conclusions
	Notes
	References
10. The Collaborative Process of Re-creation: Anne La Berge’s Brokenheart (2007) for Performers, Live Electronics, and Video
	About Anne La Berge
	La Berge’s Aesthetic of Guided Improvisation, Electronics, and Text
	Anne La Berge on Intermedia Composition: Image, Music, Text, and Technology
	Discussion and Analysis of Brokenheart (2007)
	Conclusions
	References
11. Taras su tre dimensioni by Teresa Rampazzi: Documenting the Creative Process
	Introduction
	Compositional Process
	The Analysis
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
12. Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian’s Visage: Revisiting Late Modernist Composition and the New Vocality
	Introduction
	A Brief Tour of Visage
	Beyond a Compositional Assembly Line
	A Small Digression
	The Voice Unleashed from Language
	Back to Visage
	The Body at Stake
	Body Art with No Body There
	References
Author Biographies
Index