Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Twenty Years of Japanese Electroacoustic Music: Trends in 1990s and JSEM 2. Sneezing Toward the Sun: The Human Voice in the Musique concrète of Toru Takemitsu 3. The Creative Quest into Temple Bell Sonorities: Works of Musique Concrète by Toshiro Mayuzumi 4. Japanese Electroacoustic and Japanese Instruments 5. Electroacoustic Music Linked with Information Processing Research in Japan 6. Mayuzumi’s Electronic Studies 7. The Principles of Electronic Music (1956) 8. Electronic Music 7 Variations (1957) 9. The Power of Arterial Language in Constructing a Musical Vocabulary of One’s Own: Inheriting the Inspiration and Gene of Innovation in Electroacoustic Music from Chinese Culture 10. Characteristics of Early Electronic Music Composition in China’s Mainland 11. Exploration and Innovation, the Chinese Model of the Musicacoustica-Beijing Festival 12. Taiwanese Women Composers of Mixed Music with Their Cultural Heritage 13. Excavating the History of Electroacoustic Music in Korea, 1966–2016

About the Author

Marc Battier is a composer. He is Professor of Computer Music at Shenzhen University, China, and Emeritus Professor of Musicology at Sorbonne University, France. He is cofounder of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network and founder of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network. He is also a founding member of the International Computer Music Association, honorary editor of Leonardo, and he is on the editorial board of Organised Sound and the Malaysian Music Journal.

Kenneth Fields is Professor of Computer Music at the Central Conservatory of Music, China, and Adjunct Professor in Multimedia Arts and Technology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. He is the founder and CEO of Artsmesh (Networked Music Software), and the Director of the Global Center of Advanced Studies - Santa Barbara (Phonosophy). He is also on the editorial board of Organised Sound.