Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition by Adrian Moore

Author:Adrian Moore [Moore, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-03-16T23:00:00+00:00

5.2.19 Jonty Harrison, Klang (1982)

Jonty Harrison is pivotal in the development of electroacoustic music in the United Kingdom. In particular, the blossoming, from the early 1990s onwards, of acousmatic and electroacoustic studies in academia as his students took positions in mainstream universities (Stollery, Lewis, MacDonald, Hyde, Adkins, Berezan, Moore to name but a few examples of composers who have studied with him and gone on to have careers in academia). Therefore it is important to mention his most well-known work, Klang. From a simple delight in the sonorous nature of things (in this case a casserole lid and pot) to the need to shape and extend this new world with editing, mixing and analogue manipulations, Klang sums up the composition process in a nutshell. The textures created through juxtapositions of the synthetic (oscillating blips) with clear manipulations of the source (a slowed-down version of the lid rocking against the pot) immediately ask the listener to accept the processes involved and understand the hybrid sonic result. Luckily many of these transformations retain a huge spatial dimension, which helps excite the visual senses. And, as another point of contact with an audience unfamiliar with electroacoustic music, the sustained pitch spaces are evidently harmonic (often forming diminished chords) which, whilst ambiguous harmonically, tie the listener to common Western classical associations of multiple augmented fourths.

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