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A collection that goes beyond the canon to analyze influential yet under-examined works of electronic music.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
1 Narrative Soundscape Composition: Approaching Jacqueline George’s Same Sun 1 Yvette Janine Jackson
2 Analysis of Gayle Young’s Ice Creek (2018) 21 Valentina Bertolani
3 Hildegard Westerkamp’s Beneath the Forest Floor (1992) 39 Leigh Landy
4 The Contributions of Charles Dodge’s Speech Songs to Computer Music Practice 63 Miller Puckette
5 The Musical Imagination of Knut Wiggen 83 Jøran Rudi
6 Exploring Compositional Choice in the SalMar Construction and Related Early Works by Salvatore Martirano 113 David Rosenboom
7 Invisible Influence: An Analysis of Bülent Arel’s Fantasy and Dance for Five Viols and Tape 153 Margaret Anne Schedel with Taylor Ackley
8 Nuo Ri Lang by Zhang Xiaofu 173 Marc Battier
9 Seeds and Mutations: Connections and Divergences in the Materials of Unsuk Chin’s Xi 195 Kerry L. Hagan
10 The Collaborative Process of Re-creation: Anne La Berge’s Brokenheart (2007) for Performers, Live Electronics, and Video 223 Pamela Madsen
11 Taras su tre dimensioni by Teresa Rampazzi: Documenting the Creative Process 241 Laura Zattra
12 Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian’s Visage: Revisiting Late Modernist Composition and the New Vocality 265 Juliana Snapper
Author Biographies 281
Index 287

About the Author

Miller Puckette is Professor in the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego. He has authored Max and Pure Data ("Pd"), programming environments for music and multimedia works.

Kerry L. Hagan is a composer and researcher working in both acoustic and computer media. She is on the faculty of the Digital Media and Arts Research Centre at the University of Limerick.