Contextual transformations in timbral spaces

Title: Contextual transformations in timbral spaces
Identifier: d_2009_2013:080a17ae9158:10408
identifier: 10384
Creator: Tuzun, Tolga,
Contributor: Philip Lambert
Date: 2009
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Music | Mathematics | Contextual Transformations | Group Theory | Spectral Music | Timbral Descriptors | Timbral Spaces | Transformational Theory
Abstract: This dissertation introduces a methodology for the analysis of timbral structures. The focus is on how to organize theoretical constructs based on timbral objects and their transformations in a musical composition. Transformational theory, artificial intelligence theory, music cognition, and psychoacoustics will serve as references while constructing multiple parallel approaches to the questions that arise from the perception of timbre-oriented music, i.e. electro-acoustic music, questions such as categorization and behaviors of sonic objects, processes that relate them, and challenges of new formal organizations. My intention is to supply analytical tools that are flexible and accessible enough to contribute to and coexist with pitch-based approaches. A generalized semantic theory of timbre is not the objective; this dissertation offers more of a cognitive exercise in how to uncover/discover contextual group operations in a timbral space.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Music