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Live electronic music

Index Live electronic music

Live electronic music (also known as live electronics) is a form of music that can include traditional electronic sound-generating devices, modified electric musical instruments, hacked sound generating technologies, and computers. [1]

84 relations: Academy, Algorithmic composition, Alvin Lucier, AMM (group), Amplifier, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Cleveland Orchestra, Computer music, Concert, Dance, David Behrman, David Tudor, Digital media, Electroacoustic music, Electronic circuit, Electronic filter, Electronic music, Electronic musical instrument, Electronica, Experimental music, Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Fête des belles eaux, Free improvisation, Gordon Mumma, Imaginary Landscape, Imaginary Landscape No. 1, Improvisation, Interactive programming, Jean-Michel Jarre, Johannes Fritsch, John Cage, Joseph Schillinger, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Keith Rowe, Kurzwellen, Laptop orchestra, Larry Austin, Léon Theremin, List of Cambridge Companions to Music, List of electronic music festivals, List of Jean-Michel Jarre concerts, List of music software, Live coding, Livetronica, Louis Andriessen, Mark Guzdial, Mauricio Kagel, Max Neuhaus, Mikrophonie (Stockhausen), Misha Mengelberg, ..., Mixtur, Morton Feldman, Musical improvisation, Musique concrète, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Olivier Messiaen, Ondes Martenot, Oxygène, Pendulum Music, Percy Grainger, Peter Schat, Pierre Schaeffer, Portmanteau, Prepared guitar, Prozession, Real-time computing, Reinbert de Leeuw, Richard Teitelbaum, Ring modulation, Robert Ashley, Roger Smalley, Solo (Stockhausen), Source: Music of the Avant Garde, Spharophon, Spiral (Stockhausen), Springer Science+Business Media, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Telharmonium, Thaddeus Cahill, Theremin, Timbre, Tokyo, Trautonium. Expand index (34 more) »

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

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Algorithmic composition

Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.

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Alvin Lucier

Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception.

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AMM (group)

AMM is a British free improvisation group that was founded in London, England, in 1965.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

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Canadian Electroacoustic Community

Founded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic and computer music to soundscape and sonic art to hardware hacking and beyond.

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Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five".

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Computer music

Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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David Behrman

David Behrman (born August 16, 1937 in Salzburg, Austria) is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music.

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David Tudor

David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

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Digital media

Digital media are any media that are encoded in machine-readable formats.

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Electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.

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Electronic circuit

An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow.

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Electronic filter

Electronic filters are circuits which perform signal processing functions, specifically to remove unwanted frequency components from the signal, to enhance wanted ones, or both.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne

The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France.

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Fête des belles eaux

Fête des belles eaux is a 1937 composition by French composer Olivier Messiaen.

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Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved.

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Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer.

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Imaginary Landscape

Imaginary Landscape is the title of a series of five pieces by American composer John Cage, all of which include instruments or other elements requiring electricity.

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Imaginary Landscape No. 1

Imaginary Landscape No.

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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Interactive programming

Interactive programming is the procedure of writing parts of a program while it is already active.

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.

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Johannes Fritsch

Johannes G. Fritsch (27 July 1941 – 29 April 2010) was a German composer.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Joseph Schillinger

Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger (Russian: Иосиф Моисеевич Шиллингер, 31 August 1895 – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Keith Rowe

Keith Rowe (born 16 March 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter.

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Kurzwellen

Kurzwellen (Short Waves), for six players with shortwave radio receivers and live electronics, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968.

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Laptop orchestra

A laptop orchestra (lork or LO) or laptop ensemble (LE) is a chamber music ensemble consisting primarily of laptops.

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Larry Austin

Larry Don Austin (born 12 September 1930) is an American composer noted for his electronic and computer music works.

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Léon Theremin

Lev Sergeyevich Termen (p; – 3 November 1993), or Léon Theremin in the United States, was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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List of electronic music festivals

The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitar and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (EDM).

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List of Jean-Michel Jarre concerts

This is a list of concerts and concert tours held by Jean-Michel Jarre.

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List of music software

This is a list of notable software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music.

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Live coding

Live coding (sometimes referred to as 'on-the-fly programming', 'just in time programming' and 'conversational programming') makes programming an integral part of the running program.

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Livetronica

Livetronica, also known as jamtronica, started in Philadelphia and is a style of music that blends jam band elements with those of electronica.

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Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen (born 6 June 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam.

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Mark Guzdial

Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the College of Computing and the GVU Center.

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Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Raúl Kagel (December 24, 1931 – September 18, 2008) was a German-Argentine composer notable for developing the theatrical side of musical performance.

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Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus (August 9, 1939 – February 3, 2009) was an American classical musician and artist who was a noted interpreter of the experimental percussion music in the 1960s.

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Mikrophonie (Stockhausen)

Mikrophonie is the title given by Karlheinz Stockhausen to two of his compositions, written in 1964 and 1965, in which “normally inaudible vibrations.

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Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.

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Mixtur

Mixtur, for orchestra, 4 sine-wave generators, and 4 ring modulators, is an orchestral composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1964, and is Nr. 16 in his catalogue of works.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Musique concrète

Musique concrète (meaning "concrete music")" problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.

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New Interfaces for Musical Expression

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in musical expression and artistic performance.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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Ondes Martenot

The ondes Martenot ("Martenot waves"), also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot.

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Oxygène

Oxygène (Oxygen) is the third studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre and his first album not intended for use as a soundtrack.

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Pendulum Music

Pendulum Music (For Microphones, Amplifiers Speakers and Performers)Reich, S. (1974).

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Percy Grainger

George Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist.

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Peter Schat

Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935, in Utrecht – 3 February 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer.

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Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation:,; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Prepared guitar

A prepared guitar is a guitar that has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques.

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Prozession

Prozession (Procession), for tamtam, viola, electronium, piano, microphones, filters, and potentiometers (six performers), is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1967.

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Real-time computing

In computer science, real-time computing (RTC), or reactive computing describes hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Reinbert de Leeuw

Reinbert de Leeuw (born Amsterdam, 8 September 1938) is a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer.

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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (born May 19, 1939) is an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor.

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Ring modulation

In electronics, ring modulation is a signal-processing function, an implementation of frequency mixing, performed by multiplying two signals, where one is typically a sine wave or another simple waveform and the other is the signal to be modulated.

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Robert Ashley

Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques.

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Roger Smalley

John Roger Smalley AM (26 July 1943 – 18 August 2015) was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor.

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Solo (Stockhausen)

Solo for a melody instrument with feedback is a work for a soloist with live electronics (four technician assistants) composed in 1965–66 by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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Source: Music of the Avant Garde

Source: Music of the Avant-Garde – also known and hereafter referred to as Source Magazine – was an independent, not-for-profit musical and artistic magazine published between 1967 and 1973 by teachers and students of the University of California, Davis, California.

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Spharophon

The Sphärophon or a Spherophone is an electrical musical instrument that was first made as the "Electrophon" around 1921 by Jörg Mager, later modified, renamed and exhibited in 1926.

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Spiral (Stockhausen)

Spiral (Spiral, Spirally), for a soloist with a shortwave receiver, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

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Takehisa Kosugi

is a Japanese composer and violinist associated with the Fluxus movement.

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Telharmonium

The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone) was an early electrical organ, developed by Thaddeus Cahill circa 1896 and patented in 1897.

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Thaddeus Cahill

Thaddeus Cahill (June 18, 1867 – April 12, 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century.

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Theremin

The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer).

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Trautonium

The Trautonium is a monophonic electronic musical instrument invented about 1929 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin at the Musikhochschule's music and radio lab, the Rundfunkversuchstelle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_electronic_music

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