The impact of technology on the creative processes of composing electroacoustic music.

技术对电声音乐创作过程的影响。

• 批准号: AH/J005096/1
• 负责人: Michael Clarke
• 金额: $ 39.78万
• 依托单位: University of Huddersfield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ005096%2F1
• 关键词: impact; technology; creative; processes; composing

The development of electroacoustic music has been one of the major innovations of music in the last sixty years and yet its working methods are little understood beyond its own immediate field and, perhaps as a result it lacks widespread appreciation. Matters are further complicated by the fact that the associated repertory has been materially influenced and ultimately constrained by the functional characteristics of the technologies available to each composer at the time of realisation. These developments have been made possible by an impressive range of technical advances from the development of the tape recorder to that of sophisticated high-speed computers. However with the passage of time many of the earlier technologies have disappeared into obscurity, along with the fading recollections of the composers who used them. Access to this crucial information will become increasingly difficult over time: it is already the case that many of the early pioneers are no longer alive.Rather late in the day the research community is becoming aware of the implications of these trends and the increasing importance of revisiting the past in ways which can produce tangible outcomes in terms of our knowledge and understanding of this legacy. Although it is the creative outcome that matters in the end, technical issues are axiomatic to the production of much of this music, and developing a fuller understanding of the resulting repertory involves exploring the interaction between the creative and the technical, and learning how technology and music might best work together in the future. The range and diversity of the hardware and software will often make it difficult even for those experienced in the field to acquire a detailed understanding of how a particular work has been made.The understanding of the interaction between technology and the processes of creativity in the creation of key compositions within the repertoire is important in a number of ways: it is important for a critical understanding of these works, it is important historically for an understanding of the ways in which the field has evolved, it is important for composition in the sharing of good practice, and it is important for the enhancement of university teaching and research in which the technical and the musical are often studied in isolation.The principal goals of this project are twofold: Firstly, through the critical study of a range of selected works, we aim to document and examine the ways in which technology and creativity have come together in different contexts. Secondly this project proposes to extend these investigations in an innovative way through the design and construction of software-based tools that, through the processes of modelling, will allow key features of these methods of creative working to be interactively explored. The choice of works, following consultation with leading practitioners in the electroacoustic community, will be influenced by the following criteria; i) their significance in the repertory of electroacoustic music, ii) their relevance in terms of profiling specific aesthetic approaches and compositional practices, and iii) the accessibility of the underlying technical processes for the proposed methodology in terms of their analysis and modelling. Although the outcomes of this research are initially aimed at the academic and artistic community working in this area, an important by-product will be the development of materials that can be adapted to present these issues to the potential audiences for such music and to empower all stakeholders to explore for themselves the possibilities of new ways of working with sound. It is intended that the outputs will include both text to be published by a leading international publisher, and software applications for both Mac and Windows computing environments.

电声音乐的发展是过去60年来音乐的主要创新之一，但人们对它的工作方法除了它自己的直接领域之外几乎没有人了解，也许是因为它缺乏广泛的欣赏。更复杂的是，相关的曲目受到了实质性的影响，并最终受到实现时每个作曲家可用的技术的功能特征的限制。从磁带录音机的发展到复杂的高速计算机的发展，一系列令人印象深刻的技术进步使这些发展成为可能。然而，随着时间的推移，许多早期的技术已经消失在默默无闻中，以及对使用它们的作曲家的回忆的褪色。随着时间的推移，获取这一关键信息将变得越来越困难：许多早期的先驱已经不再健在。相反，在当天晚些时候，研究界开始意识到这些趋势的影响，以及以能够在我们对这一遗产的了解和理解方面产生切实结果的方式重温过去的日益重要的意义。尽管最终重要的是创造性的结果，但技术问题对于这些音乐的大部分生产来说是不言而喻的，要更全面地理解由此产生的曲目，需要探索创造性和技术性之间的互动，并了解技术和音乐未来如何最好地合作。硬件和软件的范围和多样性往往使那些在该领域有经验的人也很难详细地了解某一特定作品是如何制作的。在剧目内的关键作品的创作中，理解技术和创造性过程之间的相互作用在许多方面是重要的：对于批判性地理解这些作品是重要的，对于理解该领域是如何演变的历史来说是重要的，对于分享良好实践的作曲来说是重要的，这个项目的主要目标有两个：首先，通过对一系列选定作品的批判性研究，我们的目标是记录和检验技术和创造力在不同背景下是如何结合在一起的。其次，该项目建议通过设计和建造基于软件的工具，以一种创新的方式扩展这些调查，通过建模过程，使这些创造性工作方法的主要特点能够得到互动探索。在征询电音界主要从业者的意见后，作品的选择将受到以下标准的影响：i)它们在电声音乐保留库中的重要性，ii)它们在描绘特定美学方法和作曲实践方面的相关性，以及iii)拟议方法的基本技术过程在分析和建模方面的可及性。虽然这项研究的结果最初是针对从事这一领域工作的学术界和艺术界的，但一个重要的副产品将是开发能够改编的材料，将这些问题呈现给这类音乐的潜在受众，并使所有利益攸关方能够自己探索与声音合作的新方法的可能性。其目的是，产出将包括由一家领先的国际出版商出版的文本，以及Mac和Windows计算环境的软件应用程序。

项目成果

Interactive Tools and Methods for Teaching Music and Signal Processing

音乐和信号处理教学的交互式工具和方法

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Clarke M

Introducing TaCEM and the TIAALS Software

TaCEM 和 TIAALS 软件简介

• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2013 International Computer Music Conference
• 作者: Clarke, M.

"From Technological Investigation and Software Emulation to Music Analysis: An integrated approach to Barry Truax's Riverrun"

“从技术调查和软件模拟到音乐分析：Barry Truax 的 Riverrun 的综合方法”

• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Proceedings of the joint International Computer Music Conference / Sound and Music Computing Conference
• 作者: Clarke, M.

Les relations entre technologie et créativité dans l'analyse des musiques électroacoustiques : une étude comparative de Riverrun de Barry Truax et Imago de Trevor Wishart

电声音乐分析中技术与创造力的关系：Riverrun de Barry Truax 和 Imago de Trevor Wishart 的比较研究

• DOI: 10.3917/musur.151.0027
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Musurgia
• 作者: Clarke M

'Using Software Emulation to Explore the Creative and Technical Processes in Computer Music: John Chowning's Stria, a case study from the TaCEM project'.

“使用软件仿真探索计算机音乐中的创意和技术流程：John Chowning 的 Stria，TaCEM 项目的案例研究”。

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Clarke M