MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Else Marie Pade, Karlheinz Stockhausen, White Noise
Lecture 7 - Synthesized Sound as Musical Material
❖ Key Terms
• Oscillator
• White Noise (and Pink Noise)
• Harmonic and Inharmonic sounds
• Filter
• Serialism
• Envelope
❖ Key Technologies
• Oscillators + tape processing
o Fixed pieces
o Labor intensive
o Cat pefo lie
• Analog Modular Synthesizers (instruments)
o Improvisations, live performances
o Fixed pieces (can record it onto tape)
❖ Two Works of Elektronische Musik
• Kontakte, Karlheinz Stockhausen – 1960
o Original, four channel tape
• Syv Circlar, Else Marie Pade – 1958
o Denmark
o Clarity of Structure
o Material, Structure, and Development transparently interrelated
❖ Elektronische Musik as a practice
• The othe patie opposed to Musiue Corete), based at a studio in
Cologne, Germany
• Influence of Serialism
o 2nd Viemete school
o Politics of equality (of notes)
▪ Take all 12 pitches and treat them equally (there usually was a
hierarchy)
o Their system ended up being just as rigid though
• Restricted to entirely Synthetic means of sound production
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Document Summary
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