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Sound-objects, Values and Characters in Åke Parmerud’s Les objets obscurs, 3rd Section

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2009

Lasse Thoresen
Lasse Thoresen*
Affiliation:
The Norwegian Academy of Music, P.O. Box 5190 Majorstua, 0302 Oslo, Norway
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E-mail: lasse.thoresen@nmh.no
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Abstract

In volume 12, number 2 of Organised Sound, we presented a revision of Pierre Schaeffer’s spectromorphology adapted to practical analysis. The present paper shows the steps of applying the proposed method of analysis to a specific work by the Swedish composer Åke Parmerud, as we pursue the application of two other central terms in Schaffer’s analytical work, namely ‘caractère’ and ‘valeur’. Whereas ‘sound-character’ would refer only to a timbral constant that supports pertinent values, we identify a form-building entity, termed integral sound-character, consisting of a union of sound-character and its temporal behaviour.

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Organised Sound , Volume 14 , Issue 3: ZKM – 20 Years , December 2009 , pp. 310 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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DISCOGRAPHY

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Spectromorphological analysis of Åke Parmerud’s Les objets obscurs, 3rd section

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