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The cognitive continuum of electronic music / Anil Çamci.

"The electronic medium allows any audible sound to be contextualized as music. This brings about unique structural possibilities as spectrum, dynamics, space, and time become continuous dimensions of musical articulation. What we hear in electronic music ventures beyond what we traditionally ch...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Bloomsbury)
Main Author: Çamci, Anil (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Electronic music.
Electronic dance music.
Electronic music
Music recording & reproduction
Electronic musical instruments
Theory of music & musicology
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Book
  • 1. Defining Electronic Music
  • Early Years of Electronic Music
  • The Electronic Medium
  • Non-musical Sound
  • Birth of the Electronic Music Studio
  • A New Frontier
  • Electronic Music Nomenclature
  • The Medium is the Genre
  • Acousmatic Music
  • Electroacoustic Music
  • Broadening Horizons
  • 2. Situating the Electronic Music Experience
  • Foundations of Musical Behavior
  • Evolutionary Perspectives
  • From Biology to Culture
  • The Material and Language of Music
  • Music and Emotion
  • Affect in Music
  • Experiential Idiosyncrasies of Electronic Music
  • The Composer, who is also a Listener
  • From Parameters to Instincts
  • Complexity of Listening
  • An Amalgamation of Languages
  • Threads of Communication in Electronic Music
  • The Poietic Thread
  • The Esthesic Thread
  • 3. A Study on Listening Imagination
  • A Cognitive Approach
  • Experimental Studies on Electronic Music
  • "Talking about music is like..."
  • Stimuli
  • Birdfish (2012, 4'40")
  • Sound Design
  • Form
  • Element Yon (2011, 3'45")
  • Sound Design
  • Form
  • Christmas 2013 (2011, 2'16")
  • Sound Design
  • Form
  • Diegese (2013, 1'54")
  • Sound Design
  • Form
  • Touche pas (by Curtis Roads, 2009, 5'30")
  • Study Design
  • Preliminary Studies
  • Participants
  • Setup
  • Procedure
  • Initial Listening Session
  • General Impressions Task
  • Real-time Descriptors Exercise
  • Real-time Descriptors Task
  • Results
  • Data Visualizations
  • Single-timeline Dynamic Visualization
  • Multiple-timeline Visualization
  • Analysis Methods
  • Categorization of Descriptors
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Correspondence Analysis
  • Discourse Analysis
  • 4. The Electronic Gesture
  • Events in the Environment
  • Environmental Sounds
  • Models of Mental Representation
  • Affordances
  • Gestures in Electronic Music
  • ...is a meaningful narrative unit...
  • ...operates within causal networks...
  • ...coexists with other gestures in various temporal and spatial configurations...
  • ...implies intentionality
  • 5. Worldmaking in Electronic Music
  • Diegesis
  • An Interdisciplinary Contextualization of Diegesis
  • Coalescence of Mimesis and Diegesis
  • Presentationality
  • Narrativity
  • Diegetic Affordances and Affect
  • Music as A Diegetic Actor
  • Quoting Music within Music
  • A Diegetic Actor as Music: Electronic Music and Science Fiction
  • 6. Tracing the Continuum
  • Domains of Experience
  • The Physical Domain
  • Awareness of the Physical Self
  • Stream Segregation
  • Habituation
  • The Semantic Domain
  • Effects of Semantic Context
  • Semantic Gestalts
  • Signs of Life
  • Contacts Between the Two Domains
  • Inside and Outside the Diegesis
  • Sense of Time
  • Experienced Listeners
  • Presence of the Composer in the Work
  • Case Study: Little Animals
  • Macro-scale Analysis
  • Gestural Layers
  • Organic and Environmental Sounds
  • Physical Causalities
  • Pitched and Droning Elements
  • Temporal Flow
  • Diegetic Disposition of the Listener
  • Coda
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography.

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