Imagining the Source: The Interplay of Realism and Abstraction in Electroacoustic Music

Young, John

1996

A Poetry of Reality. Contemporary Music Review 15(1-2): 73-93.

Language: English

The author studies the virtual and surreal sound world of electroacoustic music. The composers create their sound worlds by:
- combining recognisable sounds which do not coexist in reality - mixing recognisable sounds and synthetic sounds He analyses several works by Wishart, Smalley, Dhomont, Cousins, Parmegiani, and Lejeune.