Composition Reproduction
Name: Laura Gadd
Course: Music Technology
Description
Develop a compositional plan and describe it in detail (300 words). The plan must research, examine, assess and describe items under ‘aesthetic criteria’.
When I began to organise what I was going to write for this assignment, I started to think about what I wanted to get from it. When looking up some extra information on ‘Musique Concrete’ from Wikipedia (1), I discovered a word that Pierre Schaeffer loved to use; ‘Jue’. Jue, originally coming from the French word Jouer, means 'to enjoy oneself by interacting with one's surroundings', as well as 'to operate a musical instrument'.
When I read this it made me realise that I wanted to write something that would really represent musique concrete in its early stages, because this was where the subject fascinated me most. I want to keep my finished product as simple as possible, as Pierre had done with his first piece Etude aux chemins de fer (Study on railways) (2).
I will use the materials I have produced so far throughout the term, and use programmes such as Pro Tools, SoundHack and Reason to manipulate them. I want to try and create something that is not so much ‘harmonic’ as it is ‘abstract’ or ‘musique concrete’ as Pierre likes to refer to it, as he believes ordinary music is ‘abstract’.
I want to try and use as least amount of my sample materials as possible, as I feel this will help to keep my piece simple.
I will be using a lot of reverb and delay, as well as other effects such as ‘shuffling’, transposition of sound levels, pitch and volume, until I find the sounds that I desire.
This piece will not make any sense, as I do not want it to. This piece is intended to be very ‘random’ and ‘spectral’, as this was what helped Pierre prove his point to the public that this new found ‘Musique Concrete’ was not intended to always ‘follow the rules’, but used as a way to express yourself with newfound technology.
References:
(1) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ‘Musique Concrete’, Viewed on May 5th, 2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te
(2) Carrol, Mark, Perspectives in Music Technology , Week seven, Pierre Schaeffer and musique concrete’,EMU University of Adelaide, viewed on May 5th, 2007.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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