著者

庄野 進

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.2, pp.58-69, 1986-09-30

---

"Electronic Music" has three origins : elektronische Musik, musique concrete and tape music. Though these origins have been integrated from the mid fifties into "Electronic Music", we can still classify this music according to three electronically determined aspects of generating, transforming and restoring or composing sounds. Electronic music does not represent a new (avant-gardistic) style as once insisted by German composers, but a genre, and can be characterized by its use of a variety of musical elements : various sound materials, which have new timbres, "imagery space" and movement of sounds in space as materials of composition. But the most important influence of electronics on music is the change of fundamental characteristics in each process of musical communication : 1) the immediate feedback of sound results as essential part of composing, 2) absence of performer or interpreter, 3) emergence of discursive type of listening.