Tag: musique concrete
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Listening To Acousmatic Music Is A New Experience
Acousmatic music is defined by the use of recorded environmental, or “everyday,” sounds as raw compositional material; thus, questions regarding the relationship between sound and source (or implied source) are raised, leading to an investigation of concepts of mimesis in this music that stirs up nineteenth-century debates over absolute versus programmatic music. Issues of sound…
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Electronic Jazz Collective Hits SOMA FM charts
The music collective GANFUNKEL released the 5-song-EP Fighting Music with Music following the successful 2013 release of Machine Coincident Jazz. The former album produced one song that reached #1 on jazz radio charts, 2 songs that reached #2, and one song that reached #3. Ganfunkel is California-based and led by Simcoe native Rik Ganju. Personnel…