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The Hyperorchestra: Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles

The Hyperorchestra: Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles

Casanelles, Sergi

Hardcover

General MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 3031751922
ISBN13: 9783031751929
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 20 2024
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book studies the hyperorchestra as used in music for the screen and draws from the intersection of practice and theory. The term hyperorchestra derives from hyperreality, a postmodern philosophical concept coined by Jean Baudrillard. The hyperorchestra is a virtual ensemble that inhabits hyperreality. It approaches music spectrally with the aim of becoming a more effective vessel for meaning generation. The book is informed by concepts from postmodern philosophy, such as hyperreality and Marshall McLuhan's theory of media. The book is also informed by the author's own compositional practice; it describes contemporary processes, current software tools, orchestration and instrumentation principles, and contemporary approaches to music composition (such as spectral music). In doing so, the book proposes a new perspective for analyzing contemporary film music that pinpoints the importance of the relationship between timbre, meaning, and the different narrative levels within an audiovisual piece.

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