Open AccessReadings of a Work: a musical analysis of All Round Me by Russell Pinkston
Author(s) -
Leandro Gumboski,
Ana Leticia Crozetta Zomer,
Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
musica theorica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2525-5541
DOI - 10.52930/mt.v3i1.67
Subject(s) - representation (politics) , narrative , structuring , subject (documents) , composition (language) , sound (geography) , linguistics , identification (biology) , electroacoustic music , musical , closeness , visual arts , art , aesthetics , computer science , philosophy , acoustics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , botany , finance , politics , library science , political science , law , economics , biology
In this paper, we analyze the electroacoustic composition All Round Me by Russell Pinkston. We present three main analytical aspects: (1) identification and classification of materials of each section based on Dennis Smalley’s theory of spectro-morphology and Michel Chion’s metaphorical description of sound objects; (2) representation of materials through graphical transcriptions to illustrate the structuring and transformation of these materials throughout the work; (3) narrative description based on the idea of representation of spirit-manifestations. Sonographic and spectral analyses were used as support for the spectro-morphological identification of sound objects. We sought to demonstrate that the listener of All Round Me is an active participant while being a subject of discourse, confronting throughout the aesthetic experience of the composition with the tension between life and death represented by the states of closeness and remoteness from (sound) spirit-manifestations.