New sounds & textures

New sounds from old instruments

What instrument is playing this music?

• 1) Guitar

• 2) Piano

• 3) Various mallet percussion

• 4) a computer

John Cage, Prepared

Piano

Henry Cowell, The Banshee

George Crumb, Black Angels

Electronic Music

T/F: The creation of electronic music would have to wait until the invention of the computer.

• 1) True

• 2) False

• 3) Pineapple

Types of Electronic Music

• Musique concrète

• Pure electronics

• “Live” electronics

• record and manipulate real sounds

• musique concrète

• “noises” or instruments/voices

• make your own sounds

• combine real instruments/voices with electronics

What can you do with electronics?

Edgard Varèse

• 1883-1965

• b. France, to America in 1915

• electronic and acoustic music

Poème èlectronique1958 Brussels World’s Fair

Textural composition

Pendereski,Threnody: to the Victims of Hiroshima