Murat Güneş

Utilizing full range of sound negates interval thinking

Interval-based thinking in music composition comes in various guises: classical adherence to simple mathematical forms; the notion of scales; serial, spectral and minimalist aesthetics with their own intervalisms, etc. As electronic music utilizes the full range of possible sounds, it negates these approaches.

References: Roads, Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic (2015) p. 24

To think in terms of the full range of sound materials and procedures is to shift the aesthetic focus away from sharply defined intervals toward continuously varying and fuzzy boundaries. Just as it has become possible to sculpt habitats from fiberglass foam, or construct any shape by means of a three-dimensional printer, the flowing structures that we can now design and generate do not necessarily resemble the usual angular forms of musical architecture. To the contrary, they often tend toward streamlike or cloudlike morphologies in continuous evolution.