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Cory Kasprzyk - DMA Document (final).pdf (9.84 MB)
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Found Composition: Ecological Awareness and its Impact on Compositional Authority in Music Employing Electronics
Author Info
Kasprzyk, Cory Ryan
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-0669
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510572689037113
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2017, Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), Bowling Green State University, Contemporary Music.
Abstract
A body of music exists that to varying degrees surrenders compositional decisions to environmental observation. Many composers utilizing electronics allow an increasing awareness of climate change and human impact on our shared environment to influence their work in some regard. In many cases, this is accompanied by the notion of removing themselves (i.e., their authority as the composer) from the compositional process. This document brings diverse repertoire together to explore the various nuances of climate cognizance permeating the end result of a work. Offered is an examination of how environmental awareness impacts the degree to which a composer, utilizing electronics, relinquishes musical decisions. Chapter One identifies the subject matter and existent scholarly literature, expanded through discussion of major figures like John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and Olivier Messiaen, as well as free improvisation. Chapter Two explores the means in which composers utilize the soundscape, viewed through established areas such as field recording, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, sonification, and ecoacoustics. Chapters Three through Five examine the work of Hildegard Westerkamp, Matthew Burtner, and Jez riley French. Chapter Six offers additional environmental views and social concern, working toward an aesthetic which may be posited as aligning with found composition.
Committee
Marilyn Shrude, D.M. (Advisor)
Dalton Jones, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Mikel Kuehn, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Arne Spohr, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
126 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
Found Composition
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Field Recording
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Acoustic Ecology
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Soundscape Composition
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Ecoacoustics
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Kasprzyk, C. R. (2017).
Found Composition: Ecological Awareness and its Impact on Compositional Authority in Music Employing Electronics
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510572689037113
APA Style (7th edition)
Kasprzyk, Cory.
Found Composition: Ecological Awareness and its Impact on Compositional Authority in Music Employing Electronics.
2017. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510572689037113.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kasprzyk, Cory. "Found Composition: Ecological Awareness and its Impact on Compositional Authority in Music Employing Electronics." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510572689037113
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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