Between the Tracks: Musicians on Chosen Digital Music

This assortment of writings on digital music goes exterior the canon to research influential works by under-recognized musicians. The contributors, a lot of whom are composers and performers themselves, supply their unsung musical heroes the form of in-depth examinations normally reserved for extra well-known composers and works. They analyze music from around the globe and throughout genders, race, nationality, and age, discussing works that vary from soundscapes of speeding water and resonating pipes to compositions by algorithm. Topics embrace the collaboration of performer and composer, as seen within the work of Anne La Berge, Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian, and others; the selection by Asian composers Zhang Xiaofu and Unsuk Chin to embrace (or not) Jap themes and kinds; and the way applied sciences utilized by composers created the sound of the works, as exemplified by Bülent Arel’s use of voltage-control parts as compositional instruments and Charles Dodge’s resynthesizing of the human voice.

Contributors

Marc Battier, Valentina Bertolani, Kerry L. Hagan, Yvette Janine Jackson, Leigh Landy, Pamela Madsen, Miller Puckette, David Rosenboom, Jøran Rudi, Margaret Anne Schedel, Juliana Snapper, Laura Zattra

Composers

Bülent Arel, Cathy Berberian and Luciano Berio, Anne La Berge, Unsuk Chin, Charles Dodge, Jacqueline George, Salvatore Martirano, Teresa Rampazzi, Hildegard Westerkamp, Knut Wiggen, Gayle Younger, Zhang Xiaofu