Interactive Technologies and Music Making
Transmutable Music
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:27th Aug '24
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Challenging current music making approaches which have traditionally relied on the repetition of fixed forms when played, this book provides a new framework for musicians, composers, and producers wanting to explore working with music that can be represented by data and transformed by interactive technologies.
Beginning with an exploration into how current interactive technologies, including VR and AR, are affecting music, the book goes on to create an accessible compositional model which articulates the emerging field of ‘transmutable music.’ It then shows how to compose and produce transmutable music for platforms like video games, apps and interactive works, employing tutorials which use a range of inputs from sensors, data, and compositional approaches. The book also offers technical exercises on how to transform data into usable forms (including machine learning techniques) for mapping musical parameters, and discussion points to support learning.
This book is a valuable resource for industry professionals wanting to gain an insight into cutting edge new practice, as well as for assisting musicians, composers, and producers with professional development. It is also suitable for students and researchers in the fields of music/audio composition and music/audio production, computer game design, and interactive media.
This is a book very much of our time… Given the fresh and contemporary subject matter, and the feeling of urgency conveyed in the advisory and pedagogical sections of the book that set out clearly how those with access to the appropriate equipment can become active players in the aesthetic and procedural advances described, Redhead takes considerable pains to place her view of music within a historical context in which the subject of her study represents a future that has emerged from the revolutions of a relatively recent past.
Redhead combines the investigation of “how to” with significant advice on evaluation, of one’s own practice, of the reception of one’s efforts by listeners and – the true innovation – of the evaluation of active contributors to transmutable operations on the outcomes of their own influence on the music. There is indeed a new aesthetic at work here…
One anticipates that a thorough, active reading of Redhead’s book accompanied by completion of the tutorial tasks will lead on to a longer engagement with both the book’s own Companion Website and the programs and instructional material additionally accessible. Whether or not this engagement heralds a new generation of composers and arrangers achieving exceptional new outcomes we must wait to judge. But if it does so, they will have been provided with an excellent guide to their initial understanding of the processes involved in TM.
— Nicholas Bannan, Honorary Research Fellow, UWA Conservatorium of Music
ISBN: 9781032226514
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
260 pages