Teaching Electronic Music

Blake Stevens is Associate Professor of Music History at the College of Charleston.

Introduction: Narrative Histories, "Real" Music, and the Digital Vernacular (BLAKE STEVENS) / PART I: Analytical, Descriptive, and Creative Strategies / 1. Then and Now: A Practical Guide for Introducing Electronic Music (ROBERT McCLURE) / 2. Parametric Analysis: An Early Tool for Analyzing Electronic Music (ANDREW SELLE) / 3. Analyzing Electronic Music: Uncovering the Original Conditions of Production (MARC BATTIER) / 4. Sound Design and Compositional Process in Skrillex: From Minimalism and FM Synthesis to Dubstep (RISHABH RAJAN) / 5. Teaching Principles of Interactive Sound: A Practice-Based Approach (LUCY ANN HARRISON) / 6. Algorithmic Composition: Implementations in Western Tonal Art Music, Video Games, and Other Music Technologies (V.J. MANZO) / PART II: Unifying the Curriculum / 7. It’s Not (Just) about History and, by the Way, Which History? (LEIGH LANDY) / PART III: Critical Interventions and Methods / 8. Posthuman Sound Design: Describing Hybridity, Distributed Cognition, and Mutation (PATTI KILROY) / 9. Composing by Hacking: Technology Appropriation as a Pedagogical Tool for Electronic Music (RAUL MASU AND FABIO MORREALE) / 10. Listening to and Sampling the Land: On the Decolonization of Electronic Music Pedagogy (KATE GALLOWAY) / 11. Technological Mediation and Traditional Culture in Chinese Electroacoustic Music (ANNIE YEN-LING LIU AND YANG YINUO) / 12. Sound and Image in New Media Art (MARIAN MAZZONE)