ABSTRACT

Today's education and communications media are seen to be the main cause of the anonymity of contemporary music and suggestions are made to improve this situation. Leigh Landy investigates audio-visual applications that have hardly been explored, new timbres and sound sources, the discovery of musical space, new notations, musical politics, and the 'musical community' in an attempt to incite more composers, musicians and musicologists to get this music out into the works and to stimulate the creation of new experimental works.

part 1|18 pages

Introduction

chapter I|16 pages

What it's all about

part 2|38 pages

Four Extra-Musical Subjects of Relevance

chapter II|9 pages

The media/1

chapter III|6 pages

Technology

chapter 2 IV|8 pages

Local music

chapter V|12 pages

Music and politics

part 3|73 pages

Status Report

chapter VI|17 pages

New notation and instrument practice

chapter VIII|9 pages

Sound sources, color

chapter 3 IX|12 pages

The “parameter” space

chapter X|13 pages

The media/2

How often have you seen your compositions performed?

part 4|41 pages

Contemporary Music Today

chapter XI|10 pages

Survey

One step forwards, two steps backwards?

chapter XII|8 pages

The maestros of the 50s and 60s in 1989

chapter XIII|13 pages

Today's music of sounds

Electroacoustic music and extended vocal techniques

chapter XIV|7 pages

Fusion music

part 5|15 pages

Conclusion

chapter XV|13 pages

A possible future for experimental music

part 6|106 pages

Work Descriptions and Cues for the Listener

chapter 6 XVIe|4 pages

Music as process – Reich's Piano Phase

chapter XVII|10 pages

Recent electroacoustic music – Risset's Sud