Resonances : for wind instruments
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is comprised of a single work, Resonances, which was written and premiered by Elision Ensemble. The compositional motivation behind Resonances was driven by the following two questions pertaining to the acoustic peculiarities of wind instruments: (1) Is it possible to design an algorithmic system to formulate various degrees of polyphonic correlations, which would yield multiple formal relations as a function of acoustic distinctiveness?; (2) If so, how perceptible would the resulting polyphony be? Focusing on the deviation degrees of acoustic properties, Resonances views the instruments as complex acoustic mechanisms. I represent the complexity of each instrument in a matrix, the inputs of which are various acoustic measurements of a wind instrument. An algorithm operates on these matrices to generate new matrices. Then, the output matrices are plotted in a multidimensional space through which various geometric relations (in terms of deviational scaling) are devised to formulate formal structures.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ercetin, Turgut | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music. | |
| Primary advisor | Ferneyhough, Brian, 1943- | |
| Thesis advisor | Ferneyhough, Brian, 1943- | |
| Thesis advisor | Applebaum, Mark | |
| Thesis advisor | Chafe, Chris | |
| Thesis advisor | Ulman, Erik, 1969- | |
| Advisor | Applebaum, Mark | |
| Advisor | Chafe, Chris | |
| Advisor | Ulman, Erik, 1969- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Turgut Ercetin. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Thesis (DMA)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Turgut Ercetin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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