Week 8:

Marc-André Dalbavie and Steve Lehman

Presentations

Shauna Toh on Psychoacoustic Processes and Phenomena in the Spectral Aesthetic
Forrest Muther on Steve Lehman and Spectral Jazz

Analyses:

Marc-André Dalbavie, Color

Steve Lehman, Echoes

Read:

Jonathan Harvey, 'Spectralism', Contemporary Music Review, 19: 3, 11–.

Interview in Cadence with Steve Lehman

 

Further Reading:

Philippe Lalitte, Acoustique et perception dans l'esthétique de Marc-André Dalbavie (French)

Steve Lehman, "Liminality as a Framework for Composition: Rhythmic Thresholds, Spectral Harmonies and Afrological Improvisation" (PhD diss, Columbia, University, 2012)

 

Listen:

Jonathan Harvey, Bhakti

Lehman, "After Meaning," from Door, "Echoes," from Travail, Transformation and Flow

Marc-André Dalbavie, Color (2001), Ciacconia (2002)

 

Scores:

Lehman, After Meaning for mixed ensemble (2007)
Dalbavie, Color (2001), on reserve in AMC