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

Logan, Sam

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

dc.contributor.author	Logan, Sam
dc.date.accessioned	2013-12-20T00:36:46Z
dc.date.available	2013-12-20T00:36:46Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	The 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.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4984
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Massey University	en_US
dc.rights	The Author	en_US
dc.subject	Composition (Music)	en
dc.subject	Technological innovations	en
dc.subject	Sound	en
dc.subject	Recording and reproducing	en
dc.subject	Musicals	en
dc.subject	Production and direction	en
dc.subject	Music	en
dc.subject	Philosophy and aesthetics	en
dc.title	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	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
massey.contributor.author	Logan, Sam	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Composition	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Massey University	en
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Musical Arts (M.M.A.)	en