Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence
- Author: Bailey, Thomas Bey William
- Author: Ellison, Barbara
- Editor: López, Francisco
Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence
- Author: Bailey, Thomas Bey William
- Author: Ellison, Barbara
- Editor: López, Francisco
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In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery
and elevation. We just need to conjure them.
Contents
- List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements 1 Phantasmagenics
- 1. 1 Sonic phantoms as emergent presence
- 1. 2 Presence by apophenia
- 1. 3 Apophenia and creativity
- 1. 4 Creativity with ambiguity
- 1. 5 Ambiguity as intentional practice 2 Inducing the phantasmatic
- 2. 1 Compositional phantasmatic strategies and techniques
- 2.1. 1 Repetition
- 2.1. 2 Persistence
- 2.1. 3 Layering
- 2.1. 4 Noise
- 2.1. 5 Accentuation
- 2. 2 Realms of sonic phantasmatic experience 3 Phantasma Instrumentalis: The Realm of the Instrument Compositional Series: Harp Phantoms
- 3. 1 Sonic exploration of the instrument
- 3. 2 Instrument preparation & sonic blotscapes
- 3. 3 Ritualization in performance
- 3. 4 Structure and possible variations
- 3. 5 Inherent patterns
- 3. 6 Auditory streaming
- 3. 7 Sonic figure and ground
- 3. 8 Listening modes and perceptual competition
- 3. 9 Accentuation of harp sonic phantoms
- 3. 10 A second life of Harp Phantoms in the studio 4 Phantasma Materialis: The Realm of the Object Compositional Series: Drawing Phantoms
- 4. 1 Initial material explorations (for a literal 'phono-graphic' performance)
- 4. 2 The Drawing Room
- 4. 3 Transcendent 'boundary loss'
- 4. 4 Automatic drawing - ghosts and dissociation
- 4. 5 Drawing Phantoms performance
- 4. 6 Expanding by narrowing: everyday and induced trance
- 4. 7 Loop multiplicity
- 4. 8 Drawing Phantoms seance
- 4. 9 'EVP' and 'OVP' 5 Phantasma Humana: The Realm of the Voice Compositional Series: Vocal Phantoms
- 5. 1 Katajjaq
- 5. 2 Vocal Phantoms#18 (for live voices)
- 5. 3 Ancient and recent vocal techniques of illusion
- 5.4. CyberSongs: Text-to-Speech-to-Song
- 5. 5 Micro-temporal mechanisms
- 5. 6 Semantic satiation and semantization 6 Phantasma Naturalis: The Realm of Nature Compositional Series: Natural Phantoms
- 6. 1 Listening and recording
- 6. 2 Natural polyphony
- 6.2. 1 Layering
- 6.2. 2 Interlocking
- 6.2. 3 Transitions
- 6. 3 Natural Phantoms
- 6. 4 Beyond composition 7 Coda: Otoacoustic Emissions: The Phantom Within References Index
