Larry Polansky
Biographic Data
| ID | 153823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Polansky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Polansky |
| SIGNATURE | POLANSKY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Pentalustral Interlude
Tenney, James
New Music of Indonesia
Cocks Crow, Dogs Bark
and musicians everywhere and always have sought to move music out of themselves. Across history and geography, musical creativity has been transduced by compositional and performance procedures-formal, spiritual, inspirational, philosophical and mathematical. Composers have always made art that is collaborative; communal; channeled from above; derived from nature, speech, or scientific principles; or spontaneously received from some unknowable so…
The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Morphological metrics
This article describes a number of methods for measuring morphological similarity in music. A variety of metric equations are described which attempt to understand certain kinds of musical and perceptual distances between pairs of shapes in any musical parameter. Different techniques for applying these metrics, such as weightings, variants on each class of metric, and multidimensional and multimetric combinations are also described
The music of the voyager interstellar record
An experiment in applied communication at the margins, approximately 90 minutes of music was selected from cultures around the world by Carl Sagan and his associates and placed aboard the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Both spacecraft have now reached the outer edges of our solar system and are heading toward deep space. This gift of music and other information about us has only the slimmest chance of ever being retrieved by extraterrestrialsy—t…
Colin McPhee
Notes on the Compositions
Barbara Benary, Jody Diamond, Lou Harrison, Larry Polansky, Jarrad Powell, I. Wayan Sadra, Rahayu Supanggah, A. W. Sutrisna, Notes on the Compositions, Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1992), pp. 103-109
Th Century Microtonal Notation
News of Music
Hierarchical Music Specification Language
"A Review of "Ruth Crawford Seeger
Matilda Guame’s biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger makes an important contribution to our understanding of the work of one of the most influential American composers of the twentieth century. The book’s strengths are its historical accuracy and meticulous detail. Its weaknesses are the writing style and the discussion of Crawford Seeger’s music
The Sackbut Blues
A Review of "Arts/Sciences"
The author reviews a transcription of Xenakis’s ‘thesis defense’ for the ‘Doctorat d’Etat’ at the Sorbonne in 1976 and finds it a welcome and essential addition to the literature documenting the composer’s ideas. Each dialogue transcribed introduces a different thinker and colleague of Xenakis, and each focuses on a different realm of Xenakis’s compositional and aesthetic philosophy. The informality and interdisciplinary nature of the discussions…
A Review of "The Music of Ben Johnston" by Heidi Von Gunden
The author finds Von Gunden’s research on this influential composer to be unusually thorough, citing the wealth of detail the book contains on the factors that have influenced Johnston’s work. The book describes both spiritual influences and the effects of Johnston’s exposure to other experimental composers. The author goes on to praise Von Gunden’s open-minded attitude towards Johnston’s early compositions. While acknowledging the difficulty of …
On the Wires of Our Nerves
Collaboration
The authors document their first collaboration involving tap dance and new music, describing their goals in collaborating, the process of composing, and the resulting work, Three Monk Tunes . In “Tap Scored” Feldman discusses her process of choreography and her work with refining the movement of musicians. In “Notes on the Three Monk Tunes for Tap Dancer” Polansky analyzes the score, which includes the taps as one of the instruments. He discusses…
The Mills College Center for Contemporary Music's Seminar in Formal Methods Series
Larry Polansky, John Levin, The Mills College Center for Contemporary Music's Seminar in Formal Methods Series: A Documentary Survey, Leonardo, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Visual Art, Sound, Music and Technology (1987), pp. 155-163
The Future of Music
"Comment on David Carrier's "Theoretical Perspectives on the Arts, Sciences and Technology
The music of the voyager interstellar record
An experiment in applied communication at the margins, approximately 90 minutes of music was selected from cultures around the world by Carl Sagan and his associates and placed aboard the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Both spacecraft have now reached the outer edges of our solar system and are heading toward deep space. This gift of music and other information about us has only the slimmest chance of ever being retrieved by extraterrestrialsy—t…
Morphological metrics
This article describes a number of methods for measuring morphological similarity in music. A variety of metric equations are described which attempt to understand certain kinds of musical and perceptual distances between pairs of shapes in any musical parameter. Different techniques for applying these metrics, such as weightings, variants on each class of metric, and multidimensional and multimetric combinations are also described
"Comment on David Carrier's "Theoretical Perspectives on the Arts, Sciences and Technology
The Mills College Center for Contemporary Music's Seminar in Formal Methods Series
Larry Polansky, John Levin, The Mills College Center for Contemporary Music's Seminar in Formal Methods Series: A Documentary Survey, Leonardo, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Visual Art, Sound, Music and Technology (1987), pp. 155-163
The Future of Music
A Review of "Arts/Sciences"
The author reviews a transcription of Xenakis’s ‘thesis defense’ for the ‘Doctorat d’Etat’ at the Sorbonne in 1976 and finds it a welcome and essential addition to the literature documenting the composer’s ideas. Each dialogue transcribed introduces a different thinker and colleague of Xenakis, and each focuses on a different realm of Xenakis’s compositional and aesthetic philosophy. The informality and interdisciplinary nature of the discussions…
A Review of "The Music of Ben Johnston" by Heidi Von Gunden
The author finds Von Gunden’s research on this influential composer to be unusually thorough, citing the wealth of detail the book contains on the factors that have influenced Johnston’s work. The book describes both spiritual influences and the effects of Johnston’s exposure to other experimental composers. The author goes on to praise Von Gunden’s open-minded attitude towards Johnston’s early compositions. While acknowledging the difficulty of …
On the Wires of Our Nerves
Collaboration
The authors document their first collaboration involving tap dance and new music, describing their goals in collaborating, the process of composing, and the resulting work, Three Monk Tunes . In “Tap Scored” Feldman discusses her process of choreography and her work with refining the movement of musicians. In “Notes on the Three Monk Tunes for Tap Dancer” Polansky analyzes the score, which includes the taps as one of the instruments. He discusses…
Th Century Microtonal Notation
News of Music
Hierarchical Music Specification Language
"A Review of "Ruth Crawford Seeger
Matilda Guame’s biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger makes an important contribution to our understanding of the work of one of the most influential American composers of the twentieth century. The book’s strengths are its historical accuracy and meticulous detail. Its weaknesses are the writing style and the discussion of Crawford Seeger’s music
The Sackbut Blues
Notes on the Compositions
Barbara Benary, Jody Diamond, Lou Harrison, Larry Polansky, Jarrad Powell, I. Wayan Sadra, Rahayu Supanggah, A. W. Sutrisna, Notes on the Compositions, Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1992), pp. 103-109
The music of the voyager interstellar record
An experiment in applied communication at the margins, approximately 90 minutes of music was selected from cultures around the world by Carl Sagan and his associates and placed aboard the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Both spacecraft have now reached the outer edges of our solar system and are heading toward deep space. This gift of music and other information about us has only the slimmest chance of ever being retrieved by extraterrestrialsy—t…
Colin McPhee
The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Morphological metrics
This article describes a number of methods for measuring morphological similarity in music. A variety of metric equations are described which attempt to understand certain kinds of musical and perceptual distances between pairs of shapes in any musical parameter. Different techniques for applying these metrics, such as weightings, variants on each class of metric, and multidimensional and multimetric combinations are also described
Cocks Crow, Dogs Bark
and musicians everywhere and always have sought to move music out of themselves. Across history and geography, musical creativity has been transduced by compositional and performance procedures-formal, spiritual, inspirational, philosophical and mathematical. Composers have always made art that is collaborative; communal; channeled from above; derived from nature, speech, or scientific principles; or spontaneously received from some unknowable so…
New Music of Indonesia
Tenney, James
A Pentalustral Interlude
Art (17 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (9 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Music and Audio Processing (3 works) · Musical (3 works)