Analyses

Attached as a PDF file is a summary of an analysis of Denis Smalley’s Wind Chimes (Smalley, 2004), a detailed version of which formed the heart of my PhD thesis (Hirst, 2006). The thesis was re-written and published as a book (Hirst, 2008). Links to these publications can be found in the References section. Where chapters are mentioned, these refer to chapters in the thesis/book.

Monolake’s ‘Internal Clock’ was released on the 2009 album ‘Silence’ on the Imbalance Computer Music label from Berlin, Germany. The piece is an outstanding example of where contemporary dance music, which some might call electronica or IDM, crosses over with acousmatic composition traditions.

This analysis aims to explore how we might apply current acousmatic music theory to explain some of the sounds, shapes and arrangements within the field of IDM and less conventional forms of electronic dance music. 

This is an attempt at a preliminary analysis of an audio-only game for the iPhone and iPad: Papa Sangre. The paper firstly sets out the context for such a novel choice of subject and argues for the experience of audio-only gaming as worthy of analysis alongside electroacoustic music. It proposes that the only completely satisfactory approach to analysing interactive music, especially in games, would be transdisciplinary. It acknowledges that this paper is far from that ideal.

This is an analysis by Eline Marchand of the final movement of Pierre Henry's Labyrinthe, titled Remontée. There are two links provided below, which will take you to the analysis itself and to the PDF documentation, both hosted by INA-GRM.