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New Sounds and TexturesTRANSCRIPT
New sounds & textures
New sounds from old instruments
What instrument is playing this music?
• 1) Guitar
• 2) Piano
• 3) Various mallet percussion
• 4) a computer
John Cage, Prepared
Piano
Henry Cowell, The Banshee
George Crumb, Black Angels
Electronic Music
T/F: The creation of electronic music would have to wait until the invention of the computer.
• 1) True
• 2) False
• 3) Pineapple
Types of Electronic Music
• Musique concrète
• Pure electronics
• “Live” electronics
• record and manipulate real sounds
• musique concrète
• “noises” or instruments/voices
• make your own sounds
• combine real instruments/voices with electronics
What can you do with electronics?
Edgard Varèse
• 1883-1965
• b. France, to America in 1915
• electronic and acoustic music
Poème èlectronique1958 Brussels World’s Fair
Textural composition
Pendereski,Threnody: to the Victims of Hiroshima