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A Cross-genre Study of the (Ec)Static Perspective of Today’s Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2015

Riccardo Wanke
Riccardo Wanke*
Affiliation:
CESEM - Sociology and Musical Aesthetics Research Centre, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Av. de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal
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Abstract

This article explores a particular perspective, shared across various contemporary musical currents, that focuses on sound itself as a complex entity. Through the analysis of certain fundamental musical elements and sonic characteristics, this study develops a new method for comparing different genres characterised by a similar approach to sound. Using the benefits of audio, spectra and score examinations, this strategy is applied to post-spectralist and minimalist compositions (e.g. G. F. Haas, B. Lang, R. Nova, G. Verrando), as well as glitch, electronic and basic-channel style pieces (Pan Sonic, R. Ikeda, Raime). Nine musical attributes are identified that help trace a new outlook on various currents in today’s music. The study’s contribution lies in its revealing of a shared musical perspective between different artistic practices, and in the establishment of new connections between pieces that belong to unrelated contexts.

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Organised Sound , Volume 20 , Issue 3: Aesthetic Radicalism, Future and Past , December 2015 , pp. 331 - 339
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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