1st Edition
Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music NoiseFloor Perspectives
PART 1 Collaboration
1 Electronics as a Member of the Ensemble
Kerry Hagan
2 Composing with Instruments and Live Electronics
Sohrab Uduman
3 Forty Years of Live Electroacoustic Music: Reflections on a Continuing Partnership
Duncan Chapman and Mike McInerney
4 Music in Vision: Visual Music Instruments in Practice
Dave Payling
5 Autonomous Music Systems with Agency
Jason Palamara
PART 2 Engagement
6 Formuls: An Electronic Musical Instrument for Synthesis-Based Composition and Performance
James Dooley
7 Overtone Music
Hubert Howe
8 Spatial Sonorous Objects and Their Creative Use: A Framework for the Analysis of Spatialisation
Stefano Catena
9 Sound as a Method: Creative Textual Practices as Critical Re-Writings
Lauren Redhead
PART 3 Tradition
10 Scratching, Past and Future: Cataloguing the Scholarship on Turntablism and Controllerism, and an Introduction to Their Emerging Affiliated Practices and Communities
Manoli Moriaty
11 Composing with Ambisonics: An Electroacoustic Practitioner’s Guide
Mikel Kuehn
12 Audiovisualisation: Reviving the Spectre of Optical Sound and Structural/Materialist Film
Ryo Ikeshiro
13 Events and Continuums: The Audiovisual Composition ‘Estuaries 4’
Bret Battey
14 From Stochastic Music to Quantum Music
Rodney DuPlessis
15 Exploring the Musical Potential and Non-Hierarchical Signal-Noise Relationships in MP3 Compression Technologies Using Musical Composition
Jim Reeve-Baker
16 Motion Capture for Musical Expression
Charles Nichols
Biography
Marc Estibeiro is a composer, guitar player, and academic. His academic work focuses on composing music for acoustic instruments and electronics. His work has been presented at conferences, workshops, concerts, and seminars around the world. Marc is currently Associate Professor of Music at Staffordshire University in the UK.
Dave Payling is a visual music artist from Staffordshire. His work focuses on composition for Visual Music with abstract animation and electronic music. Dave is section editor for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and author of Electronic Visual Music: The Elements of Audiovisual Creativity.
David Cotter is an academic and musician, lecturing and performing on the international stage. His doctoral research at the University of Cambridge concerns the cultural, sonic, spatial, and technological affordances of the guitar in collaborative music performance.
