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Vaya - Birds

Vaya - Untitled

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This composition seeks to explore lattice based structures and pitched materials in acousmatic music. Acousmatic music often abandons musical structure in light of exploring sound behaviors and qualities. It is my intention here to allow gestural and textural materials to evolve around a lattice structure whilst, in some cases, emit a change in the structural form. 

The presence of harmony, pitch and repetition are note designed to distract the audience from the present spectromorphologies but reside as a valuable compositional tool to frame them. I hope that this piece is sucsessful in achieving that.

Sing

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Most of the sound material for this composition originates from a broken guitar I have. I wanted to explore the notion of explicit sound objects which, over time, become pushed into remote surrogacy. I was especially interested in using sounds with short a spectromorphological life and extending these sounds over time into larger structures.

Broken Strings

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This composition serves as an exploration of to what extent we can still classify music acousmatic/electroacoustic. The piece contains strong elements of hybridisation, most noticeably strong rhythmic links to IDM. The piece is intended to explore the syntax and musical discourse of multiple musical languages. It incorporates the use of a generative loop, fluid sound materials against lattice, moments of pitch/harmony and moments without. 

I am posing the question, is this acousmatic or are its links to other musical genres and languages to great to be considered acousmatic?

Final piece for the electroacoustic module at Leeds Beckett University.

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