Chou Wen-Chung's approach to combining visual and musical components and its influences on my compositional work LOESS for orchestra and live multimedia

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Title Chou Wen-Chung's approach to combining visual and musical components and its influences on my compositional work LOESS for orchestra and live multimedia
Publication Type dissertration
School or College School of Music
Department Music
Author Zhou, Zheng
Date 2022
Description This dissertation is divided into two portions. Part I is an analytical study on the musical-visual fusions in Chinese-American composer Chou Wen-Chung's music, combined with a hypothetical examination of Chou's approaches and extrapolation of his techniques with modern technologies. Through the analysis of examples from two of Chou's representative compositions, two primary methods of synthesizing musical and visual components have been detected, including visible images and textual contents. Part II, Loess for Orchestra and Live Multimedia, is an original composition created by employing and extrapolating Chou Wen-Chung's techniques of linking visual and musical components. The initial inspiration for this composition stems from the Huayin Old Tune, which is referenced as a thematic subject in the piece. The composition's final result integrates acoustic instruments, electronics, lights, and videos.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Dissertation Name Doctor of Philosophy
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Zheng Zhou
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
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Setname ir_etd
ID 2528989
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pm8eqg
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