# Strategies for the Realization of Sound Spatialization

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 8 of this series further explores aspects of spatialization in the music of Roger Reynolds, invoking works like Personae, Versions/Stages, The Red Act Arias, and MARKed MUSIC to illustrate concepts. Reynolds is interviewed by David Plylar of the Music Division, and their discussion covers topics such as conveying spatial concepts to performers and audiences, images as sources of inspiration, issues related to the perspectives and psychology of listeners in a sound field, form and content in the spatial realm, links between Reynolds' and Claude Monet's work, the relative effectiveness of gross vs. elegant realizations of spatialization, acoustic "scene design," technological collaborations, and the enhanced musical status the electronic musician gains as a realtime manipulator of…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- By: Library Of Congress. Music Division
- Genres: Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697261/)
- 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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