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Núñez, Adolfo "The Live Electronic Processing of Sound: New Practices on Musical Variation.." PhD
, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2021
Keywords/Fields of Study : Music for instruments and electroacoustic sounds, mixed music, electroacoustic music, analysis, live sound processing, real time sound processing
Abstract: This work proposes a typology for the processing of live sound in musical works, performed from listening, trying to be consistent with the theory of Western music and independent of technological implementation. This classification is intended to serve musicologists, performers and composers, for music analysis and to help better define the real contribution of live sound processing to concert music. Based on studies in fields such as psychoacoustics, listening, electroacoustic music in studio and live, and classification techniques, the most relevant criteria and parameters that define our typology are determined, the main ones being: 1) the definition of the change between original processed sound and performed by perceptual qualities, 2) the delay between both sounds as a motor of the form, and 3) the variation in the time of the processing itself. Once the typology is defined by a structure of perceptual parameters, the operation of said tool is tested by designing a database, which collects said structure. The database and is used to collect the parameters of live sound processing in a repertoire of 130 significant musical works. These works belong to composers of varied environments and cover the entire historical period of these practices, from the 1960s to the present. Finally, three works of the said repertoire are analyzed to which our typology is applied in more detail.
Department: Music
, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Advisor(s): Yvan Nommick
