An Analytical Approach for Practice-based Research of the Compositional Approach

Abstract

This paper presents a process of analysis that has been developed via a practice-based, autoethnographic study of the processes of popular electronic music composition. The mediating effects of the tools of the music-maker are examined from an Ecological Approach to Perception (EAP) perspective, with particular reference to the theory of affordances. Concepts from Actor-Network Theory, such as nonhuman agency and translation, are used to build a framework that conceptualises how these mediating effects impact the processes of composition.