Michael Clarke

• University of Huddersfield

The relationship between technology and creativity in the analysis of electroacoustic music: A comparative study of Riverrun by Barry Truax and Imago by Trevor Wishart The TaCEM project (Technology and Creativity in Electroacoustic Music), conducted by the three authors of this article and funded by United Kingdom’s AHRC (Arts and Humanities Resear...

The way music is composed, performed, and consumed has been radically altered by rapid technological developments in the last sixty years. Even acoustic music from earlier periods is now most frequently mediated by electronic means. For new music the possibilities afforded by the new technology are numerous. It is, for example, possible to construc...

The legacy of Stockhausen's role in developing the art and practice of electroacoustic music is significant, in terms of both the repertory of works he produced for the medium from the early 1950s right up to his death in 2007, and also the supporting documentation he has provided in terms of scores and technical records and his many writings on th...

Computer music presents particular challenges for the analyst. This paper discusses the approach taken by the author to tackle these issues in analysing Jonathan Harvey's work Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco [2]. The focus of the paper is not the analysis itself but the problems posed for the analyst by such a work and the methods used to try and resolv...

This paper introduces Sybil, an interactive tool for assisting in the teaching of sound synthesis and processing. We have created a 'browser' in MSP that permits patchers to be assembled into a structured learning package. All the sophistication and flexibility of MSP is available. Sybil provides text accompanied by examples that students can manip...