Murat Güneş

Sound material determines outcome in electronic music composition

The sound material to be used has a unique role in the outset of electronic music composition. You “have to have the material” to be able to compose the music; it determines the outcome in a specific kind of way.

TODO: There is another reference to this in chapter 4.

References:

Roads, Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic (2015) p. 17

The philosophy of organized sound places great emphasis on the initial stage of composition-the construction and selection of the sound materials. Just as the molecular properties of mud, thatch, wood, stone, steel, glass, and concrete determine the architectural structures that one can construct with them, sonic morphology inevitably shapes the higher layers of musical structure. These interrelationships confirm what musicians have known all along: Material, transformation, and organization work together to construct a musical code. It is through this context that a given sound accrues meaning.

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