John Dack
Biographic Data
| ID | 411612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Dack |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Dack |
| SIGNATURE | DACK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sonic Writing
Reviewed by: Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions by Thor Magnusson John Dack (bio) Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions. By Thor Magnusson. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 304. Paperback $34.95. The evolution of music is inseparable from its relationship with technology. The actual materials of music such as pitch, dynamic behavior, and spectral development are determined by…
Treatise on musical objects
"The Treatise on musical objects by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer refers to his earlier research in musique concrète and expands this to suggest a methodology of working with sounds resulting from the recording process. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer's book summarizes his…
Instruments from an Instrument
Schaeffer's analyses demonstrate unequivocally the intention to generalize his research originating from studio-based experiences and apply its principles to all music, instrumental or electroacoustic. Schaefferian theory acknowledges that the studio environment and its practices challenge the instrument's status. However, the materiality of sound still encourages (and perhaps even demands) an elaboration and assimilation of instrumental thought …
Strategies in the analysis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte für elektronische Klänge, Klävier und Schlagzeug
This analysis of the first two sections of Kontakte für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug uses terminology derived from Pierre Schaeffer's Programme de la Recherche Musicale. A brief summary of the relevant aspects of Schaefferian theory and analogical thought is presented. Sound objects are classified and described principally by means of aural analysis rather than the score. Contacts are investigated between synthesised and instrumen…
Serial thought
Serial thought's position in the evolution of post-war European music is undeniable. In addition, precursors can be traced to experiments in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. A generally unrecognised philosophical and aesthetic heritage is thus revealed. My article attempts to clarify serial thought's historical position and suggests that its combinatorial resources and its ability to mediate between and within parameters…
Pierre Schaeffer and the significance of radiophonic art
Pierre Schaeffer's reaction to his perception of “concrete sounds” was of fundamental importance to his later musical investigations. However, it is often dismissed as merely the promotion of explicitly anecdotal sound vocabularies drawn from the “real-world”. This is a misconception which obscures the significance of Schaeffer's specifically musical researches; the term “concrete” becomes vague and its cultural and philosophical resonances remai…
Pierre Schaeffer and the significance of radiophonic art
Pierre Schaeffer's reaction to his perception of “concrete sounds” was of fundamental importance to his later musical investigations. However, it is often dismissed as merely the promotion of explicitly anecdotal sound vocabularies drawn from the “real-world”. This is a misconception which obscures the significance of Schaeffer's specifically musical researches; the term “concrete” becomes vague and its cultural and philosophical resonances remai…
Pierre Schaeffer and the significance of radiophonic art
Pierre Schaeffer's reaction to his perception of “concrete sounds” was of fundamental importance to his later musical investigations. However, it is often dismissed as merely the promotion of explicitly anecdotal sound vocabularies drawn from the “real-world”. This is a misconception which obscures the significance of Schaeffer's specifically musical researches; the term “concrete” becomes vague and its cultural and philosophical resonances remai…
Serial thought
Serial thought's position in the evolution of post-war European music is undeniable. In addition, precursors can be traced to experiments in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. A generally unrecognised philosophical and aesthetic heritage is thus revealed. My article attempts to clarify serial thought's historical position and suggests that its combinatorial resources and its ability to mediate between and within parameters…
Strategies in the analysis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte für elektronische Klänge, Klävier und Schlagzeug
This analysis of the first two sections of Kontakte für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug uses terminology derived from Pierre Schaeffer's Programme de la Recherche Musicale. A brief summary of the relevant aspects of Schaefferian theory and analogical thought is presented. Sound objects are classified and described principally by means of aural analysis rather than the score. Contacts are investigated between synthesised and instrumen…
Instruments from an Instrument
Schaeffer's analyses demonstrate unequivocally the intention to generalize his research originating from studio-based experiences and apply its principles to all music, instrumental or electroacoustic. Schaefferian theory acknowledges that the studio environment and its practices challenge the instrument's status. However, the materiality of sound still encourages (and perhaps even demands) an elaboration and assimilation of instrumental thought …
Treatise on musical objects
"The Treatise on musical objects by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer refers to his earlier research in musique concrète and expands this to suggest a methodology of working with sounds resulting from the recording process. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer's book summarizes his…
Sonic Writing
Reviewed by: Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions by Thor Magnusson John Dack (bio) Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic and Signal Inscriptions. By Thor Magnusson. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 304. Paperback $34.95. The evolution of music is inseparable from its relationship with technology. The actual materials of music such as pitch, dynamic behavior, and spectral development are determined by…
Art (5 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (5 works) · Acoustics (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)