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Item Illusions of liveness : producer as composer : an exegesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Musical Arts In Composition(Massey University, 2013) Logan, SamThe practise of creating music for the recorded medium has been a fluid and constantly changing enterprise since its inception. Emergences of new studio technologies over the last fifty years have spurred new cultures, philosophies and approaches to music production and composition, ultimately seeing a merging of the once disparate roles of producer and composer. It is this contemporary, technology-informed new role of producer-composer that brings with it discussion - for much of which there is no general consensus - over issues pertaining to perceived liveness, the producer-composer’s control over the resulting sound, and most contentiously the use of music technology itself: its transparency and its legitimacy as substitutions for real instruments. These are all fluid and complex issues and this paper does not attempt to provide answers for, nor take a definitive stance on them other than in the sharing of opinions formed from my own experiences in applying production as composition to the creative aspect of this project. In this paper I seek to share some of the current discussion regarding production-as-composition, in light of my own compositional experiment, which strives to create a simulation of real-performance via almost entirely artificial means within an idealised, hyper-musical sonic environment. By bringing together real musicians and virtual instruments within a recorded track and edited via music production technology, the experiment aimed to produce an illusion of liveness.Item The cinematic aspects of electroacoustic music : a thesis submitted to Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Composition, New Zealand School of Music(Massey University, 2010) Taylor, Sarah ElizabethThis portfolio explores ‘the cinematic aspects of electroacoustic music’ by way of three compositional contexts: acousmatic composition drawing on filmic resources, electroacoustic soundtracks for short films, and the narrative and imagic aspects of archival recordings. Additionally, a research report provides commentary on the aesthetic and methodological aspects of the portfolio.Item Projects in cross-cultural music composition : a thesis and portfolio submitted to the New Zealand School of Music in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Composition, New Zealand School of Music(Massey University, 2012) Killin, AntonThe creation of music cross-culturally is a rich, cutting-egde field in contemporary music studies. This thesis examines the practice of cross-cultural music composition through the lens of the tradition of Western art music and my own perspective as a composer representing that tradition. This portfolio comprises original compositions for various musical instrumentations including Indonesian gamelan and Chinese yangqin, and which utilise a range of technical and contextual approaches that are described in the thesis. Reference is made to historic precedents (mainly twentieth-century) including a case study of one composer (Lou Harrison), in order to give a context to my own work and musical thinking.