MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Acousmatic Music
Lecture 6
❖ University of Illinois Champaign Urbana
• Acousmatic listening practice
o Intrinsic qualities of the sound itself, erasing reference
o Crystal clear samples
o High signal-to-noise ratio
▪ Super isolated, no background noise competing for your attention
o Special recording techniques
• Gestural composition
o the desig ad use of sonic gestures along with their transformation and
developet – Scott Wyatt
o Gestures may be composed of multiple saples layered ad sculpted
o Acousmatic music is often spatialized
❖ Texture vs. **Gesture** vs. Structure
• Texture: consistent feel to something
o Layers
o Patterns
o Can happen on long or short time scales
• **Gesture: Movement, transition**
o Physics
o Kinesthesia
▪ Movements of the human body, what feels natural to us (i.e.
dance)
o Transformation over relatively short time scale
o Suggest acceleration or tension/release
• Structure: architecture or form
o Measuring changes on time
❖ Digital Audio Workstation
• Possible to blend:
o Audio from recording session
o Audio samples from own library (history of recording sessions)
o Crowd-sourced samples
o Sound clips played with a sampler
▪ Could be synthesized and or made of recorded audio
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