# The Role of Space (Metaphoric and Physical) in Music

In a series of wide-ranging interviews and discussions, Roger Reynolds discusses various threads woven through his life and music. They include the use of text, thoughts on sound spatialization, site-specifics works, intermedia, technology in music, his compositional methods, and relationships with other composers (including Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, and Elliott Carter). Composer, author and educator Roger Reynolds is University Professor at the University of California, San Diego. The Roger Reynolds Collection is held at the Library of Congress, and contains manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, recordings and other primary source materials related to Reynolds' life and work. Part 7 of this series addresses some aspects of spatialization in the music of Roger Reynolds, using works like The Emperor of Ice Cream, Traces, Archipelago and the VOICESPACE series for specific examples of Reynolds' approaches to spatialization. Reynolds is interviewed by David Plylar of the Music Division, and their discussion covers topics such as the physical and electronics issues of spatialization, notating spatialization, realizing spatialization in performance and audience spaces, textual and situational glossing, notation of electroacoustic sound, the problems of communicating dynamic balance in electroacoustic music, theme and variations, visualization, descriptive approaches to communicating spatial needs, and the role of psychology in articulating and perceiving music…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- By: Library Of Congress. Music Division
- Genres: Space, Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697257/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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