Open AccessLecture about Electronic Microtonal Music at the Theremin Center Electronic Studio of the Moscow Conservatory in March 2004
Author(s) -
Joseph Pehrson
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ikoni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-3095
pISSN - 2658-4824
DOI - 10.33779/2658-4824.2019.2.149-158
Subject(s) - studio , electronic music , center (category theory) , presentation (obstetrics) , art , visual arts , art history , classical music , musical , medicine , chemistry , radiology , crystallography
Joseph Pehrson is a well-known New York-based composer. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. He has been active in promoting contemporary music in New York, having been a co-director of the “Composers’ Concordance” concert organization from 1984 to 2011. Pehrson has written music in various styles, including neoclassical and avant-garde, microtonal music. The latter includes electronic compositions with and without solo instruments, which he wrote in the decade of the 2000s. He has delved very deeply into microtonal theory and has written compositions for various unusual and non-standard microtonal scales, such as the 21-note to the octave scale. The following is a transcript of Joseph Pehrson’s presentation at the Theremin Center, which was the Moscow Conservatory’s electronic studio in the 1990s and 2000s.