17Constructing visual music images with electroacoustic music concepts

Maura McDonnell

Introduction

Each visual artist and every music composer have their own forms and means of expression, techniques and methods for creating the visual part of a visual music work. In this chapter, I will examine a method I developed and continue to use for creating visual music images for fixed media presentations that is influenced by musique concrète techniques and electroacoustic music composition. The processes and musical activity of creating sounds and timbres through recording, gathering and manipulating sound results in a musical output – the music composition. The music composer creates the sound material and the music composition. I apply similar ...

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