New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061021l
Biljana Leković, Sanela Nikolić
{"title":"The Web 2.0 social media as a space for the creation of classical music experiences in the time of the pandemic: The case of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra","authors":"Biljana Leković, Sanela Nikolić","doi":"10.5937/newso23061021l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061021l","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows how classical music left its canon-guaranteed spaces of the concert hall and stepped toward a broader community of audience using the virtual sphere of Web 2.0 social media tools, on the example of the work of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. We analyze how this orchestra uses social media to present and promote its repertoire and work during the period of pandemic measures and restrictions. The analysis indicates that in all its social media activities the orchestra was guided by the preservation of an autonomous aesthetic quality of classical music, as its value must remain present in whatever tools and formats an art institution presents itself. Various tactics of using social media tools were the opportunity to position classical music from the art of performance into a system of mediated and information-distributed culture along with the development of participatory turn as a wider audience engagement in classical music through producing social media user-generated content. The orchestra's use of social media during the time of the pandemic reflects several ways of changing classical music practice: connecting to new audiences in new ways, moving out of the concert hall, redefining the community relevance of a classical music institution, and initiating paths for collaboration between performers and the audiences.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134884847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061119i
Tijana Ilišević
{"title":"Examining the 'hyper' status of Varèse's 'prism'","authors":"Tijana Ilišević","doi":"10.5937/newso23061119i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061119i","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers an interpretation of the composition Hyperprism by Edgard Varèse. It provides an explanation of the work's possible meanings, placing emphasis on the investigation of the \"hyper\" status of the work as a \"prism\". Relying on the composer's poetics and bearing in mind his scientific approach to sound and sound articulation, this paper proposes the interpretation of the meaning of Hyperprism from the perspectives of geometry, optics, and mineralogy.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135214086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061085m
Ivana Miladinović-Prica
{"title":"Augmented sonic reality: Underneath for hyperorgan by Jasna Veličković","authors":"Ivana Miladinović-Prica","doi":"10.5937/newso23061085m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061085m","url":null,"abstract":"Underneath, a piece for hyperorgan by Jasna Veličković was commisioned by Orgelpart in Amsterdam, for a project dedicated to the modern organ, which essentially incorporates new scientific and technological achievements. In this work, Veličković found a way to continue her \"open project\" based on conducting experiments in acoustic technology and amplifying electromagnetic fields. She introduced the technological into the tradition of organ music by using coils to test the construction of the instrument, by teasing out the invisible possibilities of the organ's sound space, and by amplifying electromagnetic waves. The composer establishes an augmented reality and points to the expansion of sound and its presence where it remains outside of what our hearing can encompass.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135214089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061040z
Yuanning Zhang
{"title":"Chinese painting theory as an Inspiration: Vladimir Trmčić's two music creations on Chinese painting","authors":"Yuanning Zhang","doi":"10.5937/newso23061040z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061040z","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines Serbian composer Vladimir Trmčić's two works inspired by Chinese painting theory during the Southern and Northern Song dynasty. An in-depth analysis of the \"Chinese characteristics\" expressed or hidden in the composer's works will be conducted in the context of the composer's knowledge on China. Its aims are, firstly, to gain a deeper understanding of \"Chinese music\" as understood by Serbian composers; secondly, to provide a \"blueprint\" for motivating the development of music composition on the both sides; and finally, to demonstrate the new way of communication formed in the field of ideology so as to open up the horizons of cross-cultural studies in a wider context.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135213861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061139c
Borislav Čičovački
{"title":"The oeuvre of Isidora Žebeljan: A survey, classification, specificities, and significance (II)","authors":"Borislav Čičovački","doi":"10.5937/newso23061139c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061139c","url":null,"abstract":"In line with the extraordinary international significance that the oeuvre of Isidora Žebeljan commands in Serbia and abroad, the article begins by discussing the essence of that significance, highlighting the most important artistic accomplishments of Isidora's music as well as its unique traits that have played a direct role in the assertive breakthrough that Serbian music has made on the international stage. Specifically, it analyses three creative periods in Isidora's oeuvre, discussing the most important works and unique characteristics of Isidora's music and its originality, along with relevant facts from her biography.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135213583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061184h
Kenrick Ho
{"title":"Enacting musical maquettes: A cognition-inspired compositional approach","authors":"Kenrick Ho","doi":"10.5937/newso23061184h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061184h","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a practice-led case study on Fred Lerdahl's \"Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems\". The model attempts to define an artificial compositional grammar in terms of a \"universal listening syntax\" based on Lerdahl's co-authored A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Through demonstrating the practical application of the constraints, the author reflects on the model's usefulness in light of the contemporary compositional context. Notably, the theory presents abstracted pitch and rhythmic material as an aesthetically neutral syntax, therefore it can only provide stylistically ambiguous infrastructures akin to a musical maquette that needs to be further enacted at the composer's discretion.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135213585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061060p
Sara Pinheiro
{"title":"Foley gesture: Towards a theory of acousmatic foley","authors":"Sara Pinheiro","doi":"10.5937/newso23061060p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061060p","url":null,"abstract":"The research project \"Acousmatic Foley\" addresses common traits between foley art and Concrete Music, based on the idea that the foley artist is an acousmatic listener and, in turn, that acousmatic listening is a form of fiction. In this line, the study argues that both fields have similar treatment of the \"sonorous object\". For this purpose, the research builds on two lines of thought: the \"son-en-scène\" and the \"mise-en-son\". Firstly, the \"son-en-scène\" focuses on the sounds of the filmic miseen-scène (and its sound props), from very early cases to contemporary instances. The focus on these sound-props provides a perspective of sound for film that emphasizes its role as a tool of fiction and, thus, foley as the craft that leads to that experience. Secondly, \"mise-en-son\" sheds light on the making of the sound itself by exploring the concept of musical gesture. Either in contexts in which the musical gesture is visible (as with instruments), more cryptic (as with electronic devices), or completely delegated (as in acousmatic music), gesture can be seen a form of agency. Given that foley consists of maneuvering a sound-prop, gesture is as central to foley as it is to musical practices. This paper focus on the idea that gesture carries the same conception as the \"sonorous object\", that of an \"intentional unit\". In line with this, and in particular when of acousmatic nature, the research argues that the sonorous object is analogous to the sound-prop. In the end, these two lines of thought (son-en-scènce and mise-en-son) bridge the poietic and esthetic, as in Nattiez's semiotic distinction, towards an experience of \"acousmatic foley\".","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134884554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5937/newso23061097b
Mina Božanić
{"title":"Being fascinated with musical space-time: Piano works by Branka Popović (Solitude: Self reflections, Within a dense molecular cloud and From Rayleigh to Mie)","authors":"Mina Božanić","doi":"10.5937/newso23061097b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso23061097b","url":null,"abstract":"The piano works by Branka Popović (1977) appear as a unique and independent group in her oeuvre, as well as in the context of Serbian music of the current century. The question of the relation between the composer and musical space-time, which can be experienced directly, during the act of listening and indirectly, during the analysis of the piece of music, emerges as an essential point for understanding and interpreting Branka Popović's piano works. Under the assumption that this relationship is in the realm of unconsciousness and intuition, my goal in this article is to discover the hidden places that show how the musical space-time manifests, in this case, in the piano writing of Branka Popović. To achieve that, I will use an interpretative musical analysis, in which I will point out the specific compositional technique that Branka Popović employs and by which she 'regulates' different musical dimensions and, more precisely, musical components and their elements (specifically rhythm, timbre or tone color, harmony, motivic/thematic structuring, and dynamics) in the act of shaping the musical space-time.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135213872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2020-07-19DOI: 10.5937/newso2055213k
Janis Kudins
{"title":"Folk music quotations and allusions in Latvian composers' neo-romantic symphonic music in the last decades of the 20th century and early 21st century","authors":"Janis Kudins","doi":"10.5937/newso2055213k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2055213k","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the one specific question about folk music quotations and allusions in the symphonic music of Latvian composers in the last third of the 20th century (from the 70s) and the early 21 st century. Several Latvian composers (e.g. Romualds Kalsons, Pēteris Butāns, Pēteris Vasks, Pēteris Plakidis, Juris Karlsons) in their NEO-romantic symphonic works reflects interesting cases of Latvian folk music quotation, quasi quotation or allusion. Overall these are cases that show the composer's ability to actively use and create a similarity with Latvian folk music. However, this aspect raises the following questions. What kind of local (Latvian) traditions regarding folk music use (in general) are represented by Latvian composers? Why, at the end of the 20 th century and the early 21st century, have several composers continued to use folk music quotations or create folk music allusions? What symbolizes the folk music quotations and allusions in the context of the postmodern period's characteristic musical aesthetic and stylistics? It is hoped that this analysis will provoke a fruitful exchange of views on this question from different aspects.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123543939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New SoundPub Date : 2020-07-19DOI: 10.5937/newso2055139l
Biljana Leković
{"title":"Musicological discourse of Vesna Mikić (1967-2019): Characteristics, effects, and achievements","authors":"Biljana Leković","doi":"10.5937/newso2055139l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2055139l","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to gain an insight into the entire musicological discourse of Vesna Mikic, to offer its systematization, or, in other words, to shed light on her use of scientific and research procedures, methods and contributions. By analyzing her texts, I will try to define the development train of her musicological thought. Furthermore, I will emphasize the key characteristics regarding her field of research, and the mechanisms they are founded upon. I will also try to define the thematic fields she analyzed, thus demonstrating the valuable achievements of her work.","PeriodicalId":315139,"journal":{"name":"New Sound","volume":"47-48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133690883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}