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Record Nr.

UNINA9910918594603321

Autore

Casanelles Sergi

Titolo

The Hyperorchestra : Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles / / by Sergi Casanelles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031751936

3031751930

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages)

Collana

Literature, Cultural and Media Studies

Disciplina

781.54201

Soggetti

Music - History and criticism

Music theory

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

History of Music

Theory of Music

Contemporary Music

Film and Television Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- PART I: Theoretical and Practical Foundations -- 2. From Hyperreality to Digital Cinema: A Theoretical Overview -- 3. Conceptualizing the Hyperorchestra -- 4. The Digital Tools for the Hyperorchestra: MIDI, Virtual Instruments, and Digital Music -- PART II: The Hyperorchestra and the contemporary aesthetics for screen music -- 5. Hyperorchestral Aesthetic Frameworks for the Screen Music Composer -- 6. Hyperorchestration: Sonic Strategies for the Creation of Meaning -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The term hyperorchestra derives from hyperreality, a postmodern philosophical concept coined by Jean Baudrillard; the hyperorchestra is a virtual ensemble that inhabits hyperreality, capable of producing music that has the capacity to sound realistic and connected to our world, but that could never be produced by physical means only. This book studies the hyperorchestra as used in music for the screen and



draws from the intersection of practice and theory. From the theory's side, the book adopts concepts from postmodern philosophy such as hyperreality and Marshall McLuhan's theory of media .They serve to provide a philosophical ground from which to define the hyperorchestra. From the practice's side, the book describes contemporary processes, current software tools, orchestration and instrumentation principles, and contemporary approaches to music composition (such as spectral music). In doing so, the book proposes a new perspective for analyzing contemporary film music that pinpoints the importance of the relationship between timbre, meaning, and the different narrative levels within an audiovisual piece. Sergi Casanelles teaches composition at New York University. He has published several articles and chapters on screen music, and he has an active composition practice. He has written concert music for piano, chamber ensembles, orchestra, electronics, as well as music for the screen. He won the COM Radio Tutto Award for his solo piano piece Postlude to Chopin's F minor Fantasy, and the III Orchestral Composition Competition Evaristo Fernández Blanco for his work From Hell: 4 scenes of Dante's Divine Comedy.