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Part One: Toward the Transcendental Structures of Music; Part Two: A Portfolio of Compositions

Author:
Odai, Kiyomitsu
Degree Grantor:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Music
Degree Supervisor:
Clarence Barlow
Place of Publication:
[Santa Barbara, Calif.]
Publisher:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Creation Date:
2012
Issued Date:
2012
Topics:
Music
Keywords:
Feedback
Bark scale
Synthrumentation
Transcendental
Fibonacci
AlloSphere
Genres:
Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
Dissertation:
Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
Description:

Part One: The author introduces and explores the concept of "transcendental structure," which is the structure that overcomes itself to reach a certain visionary state. The author has strived for the artistic state through working on a variety of projects of both acoustic and electoacoustic music. The first chapter, with detailed analyses of the two major orchestral pieces the author composes in 2008-11, demonstrates the strategy to construct the musical structures and how they deconstruct themselves in order to generate new metaphysical dimensions beyond their own structural domains. In the first piece, Passacaglia di Fibonacci (2008-10), the meticulously complex structures based on the Fibonacci sequence sublimate themselves into the organic construction that involves the phonetic mechanism to make the orchestra "pronounce" the name, "Fibonacci." The second piece, Menetekel : "Ah, inu. Amen." (2010-11), establishes the webbed structure that networks the words and their corresponding musical ideas in sarcastic ways. The second chapter, in contrast, explains and discusses the electronic sound synthesis technique, Compression Feedback Generation Synthesis, which the author has developed since 2006. Though the variety of projects, the author takes advantage of the powerful sounds that the feedback systems generate and demonstrates the technique's potentials to be combined with more conventional techniques such as filtering, FFT, convolution, granular synthesis, ring modulation, and so on. Also in conceptual levels, the system to generate physical feedback loops can expand and transcend itself into the multi-dimensional circular complex through the processes it is combined with the systems in order to network performance feedback, audience feedback, visual feedback, spatial feedback, and/or even Nietzschean eternal cycle that is interpreted as temporal feedback.

Part Two: A Portfolio of Compositions. A portfolio of compositions, including scores of (1) Passacaglia di Fibonacci for orchestra (2) The Code Fed Back -- version for viola and electronics (3) Menetekel: Ah, inu. Amen." for orchestra (4) Antiecriture for piano solo.

A compact disc including (1) Passacaglia di Fibonacci for orchestra (2) The Code Fed Back -- version for viola and electronics (with introductive speech) (3) Menetekel: "Ah, inu. Amen." for orchestra (4) Metaphony for fixed media (5) The Code Fed Back -- version for fixed media (6) microwind for fixed media (stereo version) (7) Niitakayamanobore1208 a SuperCollider program for player piano.

A DVD including (1) Study on Brownian (*F) Motion for live video and live electronics (2) Annular Genealogy a multi-media installation.

Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Format:
Text
Collection(s):
UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
ARK:
ark:/48907/f3qn64pr
ISBN:
9781267934222
Catalog System Number:
990039503390203776
Rights:
Inc.icon only.dark In Copyright
Copyright Holder:
Kiyomitsu Odai
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