Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Sheila Silver | Weymouth, Daniel | Perry Goldstein | Dinu Ghezzo.
Date
2010-12-01
Keywords
electroacoustic, percussion | Music _
Department
Department of Music
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71011
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Abstract of the DissertationAcusmacia is a spanish word of Greek origin that denotes an auditory hallucination. A hallucination is the apparent perception of something not present. In the case of sound, what is perceived and what is present can differ tremendously.The perception of pitch is already the result of an extreme filtering of what is present.Acusmacia, the piece, begins with a roll on two snare drums.This sound is perceived as noise: an erratic, intermittent or statistically random oscillation. However, the actual method of production, the roll, is a periodic beating of drumsticks on a drum head.This paradox is the starting point for the piece and, through oftentimes hallucinatory procedures, it describes a journey from noise to pitch and from the acoustic to the acousmatic.duration: ca. 18 minutes
Recommended Citation
Pastor, Felix, "Acusmacia" (2010). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 219.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/219