Experimental Music : Audio Arts, Avant-Garde Music, Bohemian National Home, Bridge Music, Bull of Heaven Discography, Charm of Sound, Dictionaraoke, Ex

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Audio Arts, Avant-garde music, Bohemian National Home, Bridge Music, Bull of Heaven discography, Charm of Sound, Dictionaraoke, Experimental Music Catalogue, Futurism (music), Game piece (music), GRIM, Het Apollohuis, Indeterminacy (music), IRCAM, Jean-Marc Montera, Live coding, Live electronic music, Musicworks, Music without sound, No-Fi, Phase music, Radio Werewolf, Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound, Sonic Protest, Sonorism, Sound of Pig, Source: Music of the Avant Garde, The Art of Noises, Zimoun. Excerpt: Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage (Grant 2003, 174). More loosely, the term "experimental" is used in conjunction with genre names to describe music within specific genres that pushes against their boundaries or definitions, or else whose approach is a hybrid of disparate styles, or incorporates unorthodox, new, distinctly unique ingredients (Anon. a). Similarly, it has sometimes been used to describe "transethnic" music: the mixture of recognizable music genres. A quite distinct sense was current in the late 1950s to describe computer-controlled composition, and the term at that time also was sometimes used for electronic music and musique concrete. "Experimental music" has also been used in music journalism as a general term of disapprobation for music departing from traditional norms. The Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrete (GRMC), under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer, organized the First International Decade of Experimental Music between 8 and 18 June 1953. This appears to have been an attempt by Schaeffer to..."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1230620346
• ISBN13: 9781230620343
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Books LLC
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
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