Friday, September 29, 2017
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Music for Solo Trumpet and Electronics: A Repertoire Study by Michael Edwin Barth
Music for Solo Trumpet and Electronics:
A Repertoire Study
by Michael Edwin Barth
Link to PDF (249 pages)
Friday, September 15, 2017
The 3D Printed Flute by Amit Zoran
Link to PDF Article, The 3D Printed Flute
This paper considers the controversy of modern acoustic
instruments, which may have come to an evolutionary
impasse, due to its high standardization that makes it
difficult to explore design modifications. A new approach
for the design and fabrication of an acoustic instrument
is presented, using digital fabrication technologies, and
specifically 3D printing, which has the potential to
influence new designs, and to lead to new acoustics and
ergonomic innovations. This paper describes the key
concepts of this approach, presenting the development
process of such a 3D printed instrument—a prototype
of a 3D printed concert flute, some other 3D printed
elements, and a conceptual example of an innovative
trumpet—discussing the potential of the new technology
in fabricating and designing of musical instruments.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
"Too Sharp A Commentary For His Own Role". The Score For Piano.
"Too Sharp A Commentary For His Own Role"
The Score For Piano
Bil Smith Composer
Commissioned by PetrĂ³leo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)
2015
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Composition is a Singular Becoming. There is No Eternal Definition.
Composition is a singular becoming.
Not only is it impossible to reduce composition to something other than itself, but every definition, within a given epoch, is relative to that epoch—that is to say, to the history that gives rise to it. There is no eternal definition.
To speak of composition is always to remake music. This becoming seems to be autonomous; it seems possible for the composer to find beneath the historical accidents a necessary consecution: the notions introduced were necessitated by the solution to a problem—and by virtue of their sole presence amongst the notions that already existed, they pose, in their turn, new problems.
There really is a becoming: the composer embarks upon an adventure which can be arrested only arbitrarily, every moment of which endows it with a radical novelty.
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