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Free Download Barbara Ellison, "Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence"
English | ISBN: 1501347020 | 2020 | 248 pages | PDF | 19 MB
In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music-and perhaps in all sound-sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery