Changes to Project

In order to ensure that the project is the very best possible piece of work I can produce, it has changed slightly.  Instead of only using Musique Concrete as a basis for the work, now the project will incorporate many different styles of composition from different composers using different software and hardware.   

The project will take different classical pieces and transform them using different compositional methods in order to re-create the sound in a new, modern way. In a sense, it's merging 2 different styles and era's together to create something new and innovative.
Other composers have done similar things in the past including Stockhausen, Webern, Klusak and Shchedrin. This is often referred to as Polystylism which refers to the use of multiple styles or techniques in music, art, film etc. and is a postmodern characteristic.  This is often also called eclecticism and can describe music which combines multiple styles as well as also being used to refer to music which is thought to be lacking originality and has drawn on other methods or models.

The project will now incorporate different techniques and ideas from many composers and scholars and will show a creative and innovative personal style.  I hope to show that I can compose in a range of ways and in genres.  

Techniques to be used include prepared piano, indeterminacy, Musique Concrete and electroacoustic. 

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