Intellectual improperty: MUSICAL BORROWING AS MANIFEST IN ACOUSTIC AND ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITIONS
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation consists of two musical compositions that systematically explore the idea of collecting, organizing, recycling, concatenating, and transforming large pools of fragments borrowed from other composers. At the core of this research is an investigation the malleability of borrowed musical materials. The pieces are Drei, Dai, Dry (viola, violoncello, and percussion) and Intellectual Improperty 0.6 (laptop orchestra). A brief analysis of each piece is provided in the appendix. In the acoustic piece, algorithmic processes--computer-assisted or not--developed in previous works were reformulated and reutilized with a significantly increased number of score fragments. The granular technique called concatenative synthesis became a useful metaphor for the symbolic manipulation of the fragments. This process can be referred to as a kind of algorithmic score sampling. In the electroacoustic piece, concatenative synthesis--in its MaxMSP implementation called cataRT, by Diemo Schwarz--is used for the sound generation and manipulation of audio samples extracted from several recordings of piano pieces. The approach to musical borrowing differs according to the medium of composition. These differences originate in the very nature of the borrowed fragments in each case; audio samples in the electroacoustic domain, and notated samples in the acoustic domain. Drei, Dai, Dry and Intellectual Property 0.6 demonstrate these differences, particularly in regard to the degree of formalization of musical material. The composition of the two pieces was accompanied by considerations on the political and socio-economic dimension associated with musical borrowing today. The practice of musical borrowing can extrapolate and engender a discussion of the very notion of ownership of ideas. In fact, music, as well as open source computer software, has had a leading role in the process of questioning the concept of intellectual property. This dissertation attempts to provoke that debate.
Description
| Uniform title | Ruviaro, Bruno. Drei, dai, dry |
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| Type of resource | notated music |
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ruviaro, Bruno |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music |
| Primary advisor | Applebaum, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Applebaum, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Chafe, Chris |
| Thesis advisor | Ferneyhough, Brian, 1943- |
| Advisor | Chafe, Chris |
| Advisor | Ferneyhough, Brian, 1943- |
Subjects
| Subject | Trios (Percussion, viola, cello) > Scores |
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| Subject | Computer music |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Bruno Ruviaro. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | DMA Stanford University 2010 |
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| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Bruno Ruviaro
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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