Through a Window: A Networked Music Composition for Four to Six Instruments and Electronics

Bosse, Naithan

Through a Window: A Networked Music Composition for Four to Six Instruments and Electronics

dc.contributor.advisor	Eagle, David
dc.contributor.author	Bosse, Naithan
dc.contributor.committeemember	Radford, Laurie
dc.contributor.committeemember	Bell, Allan
dc.contributor.committeemember	Fields, Kenneth
dc.contributor.committeemember	Chafe, Chris
dc.contributor.committeemember	Manzara, Leonard
dc.date	2018-11
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-17T15:49:20Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-17T15:49:20Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-11
dc.description.abstract	Through a Window is a three movement networked composition for four to six variable instruments and electronics. In this work, musicians are distributed between three performance sites and connected by sending multi-channel audio streams across a high-bandwidth network. The composition explores how the networked setting together with live sound-processing, soundfile playback, amplification, and spatialization creates a unique sonic performance environment. By applying sound-processing differently at each location, the composition creates dynamic configurations in which elements of the work such as harmony and orchestration are perceived differently at each location. As the physical distance between performance sites increases, the time delay required to send audio between the sites also increases. This poses a significant challenge for music performance since tight synchronization becomes impossible. In Through a Window I employ several practical strategies to accommodate ensemble performance in the presence of network latency such as composing audible cues within the music, adopting proportional notation, and using networked stopwatches. Formally, the composition presents a variety of musical processes based upon evolutionary algorithms, recursive algorithms, and swarm algorithms. These processes occupy multiple sections throughout the composition and contribute to aspects of the composition such as the harmony and melodic contours. As the composition unfolds, these algorithmic materials recur in new configurations and contribute to create an interlocking macrostructure in which the musical tension increases and recedes in a pattern inspired by ocean waves.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Bosse, N. S. (2018). Through a Window: A Networked Music Composition for Four to Six Instruments and Electronics (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32920	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32920
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/107744
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Networked Music Performance
dc.subject	Algorithmic Music
dc.subject	Computer-Assisted Composition
dc.subject	Interactive Electronics
dc.subject	Interval Cycles
dc.subject	Telemedia
dc.subject	Distributed Performers
dc.subject	Chamber Music
dc.subject.classification	Music	en_US
dc.title	Through a Window: A Networked Music Composition for Four to Six Instruments and Electronics
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Music
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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