Thesis
Beyond the piano: the super instrument. Widening the instrumental capacities in the context of the piano music of the 21st century
- Abstract:
-
Thanks to the development of new technology, musical instruments are no more tied to their existing acoustic or technical limitations as almost all parameters can be augmented or modified in real time. An increasing number of composers, performers, and computer programmers have thus become interested in different ways of "supersizing" acoustic instruments in order to open up previously-unheard instrumental sounds. This leads us to the question of what constitutes a super instrument and wha...
Expand abstract
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(pdf, 2.6MB)
-
(zip, 11.7MB)
-
(zip, 146.4MB)
-
Funding
+ Arts and Humanities Research Council; Finnish Cultural Foundation
More from this funder
Funding agency for:
Kallionpaa, M
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
-
uuid:1bd51738-543e-4898-8b64-26fe2b17a352
- Local pid:
- ora:11924
- Deposit date:
- 2015-07-28
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Kallionpaa, M
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- The composition portfolio for this item is available at: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b391699d-90ac-4eca-a798-358b60f8f3ea
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record