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Towards an Absurdist Semiological Syncretism (A.S.S.)

Chambers, Eli Rexford
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679443564892932

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2023, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
Towards an Absurdist Semiological Syncretism (A.S.S.) is a composition for chamber ensemble and fixed media. The work will receive its premiere in April 2023 by the Hypercube ensemble as part of the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts Klingler Electroacoustic Residency. The instrumentation consists of saxophones (soprano and baritone), electric guitar, piano, and percussion (vibraphone, large tom, and snare drum). The work’s title is both a farcical rendering of academic language and a description of its narrative: the subject (portrayed by the instrumentalists) attempts an establishment of existential meaning among emotional distress at a culture of increasing dependence on social media and the amorphous dictates of consumerism (portrayed by the fixed media). The composition comprises three large formal divisions. In the first section, five discrete sets of intervals populate a field of pitches. These interval sets are gradually restricted from their field towards a climactic hexachord (6–20[014589]). The second section employs single-line-staff notation to express pitch-agnostic gestures written for slide whistles. The third section consists of totalistic rhythmic and tonal constructs, the gradual simplification of which seeks to recontextualize a similar process in the opening section. The fixed media component of the work is sourced from recordings of public domain literature, popular soundbites from social media (in accordance with U.S. fair use doctrines), and various objects being broken.
Elainie Lillios (Committee Member)
Mikel Kuehn (Committee Chair)
62 p.
Music
Music; Contemporary Music; Chamber Music; Quartet; Saxophone; Electric Guitar; Vibraphone; Percussion; Piano; Absurdist; Electroacoustic; Fixed Media

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  • Chambers, E. R. (2023). Towards an Absurdist Semiological Syncretism (A.S.S.) [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679443564892932

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chambers, Eli. Towards an Absurdist Semiological Syncretism (A.S.S.). 2023. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679443564892932.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chambers, Eli. "Towards an Absurdist Semiological Syncretism (A.S.S.)." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1679443564892932

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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