Transmission Two: The Great Excursion (TT:TGE) - The Aesthetic, Art and Science of a Composition for Radio

Austin, Larry, Serra, Xavier, Boone, Charle

1991

Leonardo Music Journal 1: 81-88.

Language: English

In this article, the authors each explore an aspect of Larry Austin's extended composition for radio broadcast: Transmission Two: The Great Excursion (TT:TGE) (1990). Charles Boone examines the work for its musical and dramatic interest and its significance as a hybrid of Hörspiel. Larry Austin (the composer) outlines his compositional approach. Xavier Serra explains the technical/theoretical genesis of the work's computer-generated speech sounds.