Aesthetic Considerations in the Spatialization of Sound

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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. In the ninth and final portion of our series, Reynolds is interviewed by David Plylar of the Music Division, with the focus of their discussion being on live manipulation of spatial dimensions in the music of Reynolds and his colleagues. Works discussed include Watershed IV, 22 and Flight, among other works from the repertory. Topics include the successful and unsuccessful implementation of spatial concepts in practice, the limitations of technology and the creator's ability to specify how to accomplish a task, the notion of primitives in spatialization and how these can be used expressively, the mapping of image and sounds and the danger of literal mappings, the music and paintings of Varese and his premonitions of future soundscapes, the evolution and disintegration of shared…

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English

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United States

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