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Spatial responsiveness – Allowing an acoustic environment to direct spontaneous musical composition
Date presented 08/12/2015
2nd Conference of the Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS), 07/12/2015–09/12/2015, Western Sydney University, NSW
While there exists research on electroacoustic and spatial music specifically composed for an environment, very little is written on the more improvisational aspect of performing an acoustic instrument in a particular space, and letting the space inform the musical direction and content. A solo piano recording project was undertaken at the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber with this concept as its focus. This paper documents the musical and cognitive processes involved in responding to the particular environment, and provides technical analyses of both the recording and room acoustics to determine possible correlations.