New Pulsar Generator (nupg): compositional practice, digital sound synthesis model and their temporalities
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Parker, Martin
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Hecker, Florian
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Pietruszewski, Marcin
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2024-03-21T10:50:33Z
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2024-04-03T10:58:03Z
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2024-03-21T10:50:33Z
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2024-04-03T10:58:03Z
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2024-03-21
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The thesis examines compositional methods emerging from within design and
creative engagement with the New Pulsar Generator (nuPG) program. Following a
hybrid methodology joining sound composition and media archaeology, it provides
a systematic look into the creative practice with historically inherited computational
and artistic materials. To do so, it charts a trajectory of the compositional process,
sound theoretical model, programming paradigm, and associated formalisms in the
computer program’s operative realm. The thesis has three broad goals: to outline
an integrative approach to compositional practice which incorporates engagement
with digital materials, their design, genealogy, and creative application; to examine
and contextualise a portfolio of new compositions; and to introduce a new computer
program for sound synthesis, the New Pulsar Generator (nuPG). The project
thus combines and interweaves a compositional practice, media archaeology and
computer program design. The relations and overlaps across these areas are emphasised throughout the thesis text, and connections among them are foregrounded. The project’s overarching aim is to mobilise such exchanges and to establish them as an operative concern of contemporary computer music practice.
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dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/4376
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https://hdl.handle.net/1842/41645
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The University of Edinburgh
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The New Pulsar Generator Recordings Volume One Pietruszewski, M., Oct 2020, Fancyyyyy
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Micro-sieving dataflows Pietruszewski, M. & Bick, E., Mar 2021, The Wire, 445
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Synthetic pulsar (speculative sonification) Pietruszewski, M., 6 Jul 2022, xCoAx 2022: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. Carvalhais, M., Verdicchio, M., Ribas, L. & Rangel, A. (eds.). i2ADS, p. 375-378 4 p
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Visualising co-agency and aiding legibility of sonic gestures for performers and audiences of multiplayer digital improvisation with UniSSON (Unity Supercollider Sound Object Notation) Rawlinson, J. & Pietruszewski, M., 13 Sept 2019
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The Digital Instrument as an Artifact Pietruszewski, M., 2020, From Xenakis's UPIC to graphic notation today. Weibel, P., Brummer, L. & Kanach, S. (eds.). Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 610-625 15 p
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Auditory Sieve Pietruszewski, M., 19 Oct 2020, ETAT
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dc.rights.license
CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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dc.subject
pulsar synthesis
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nuPG
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microsound
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media archaeology
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Xenakis
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Curtis Roads
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non-standard sound synthesis
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Super Collider
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dc.title
New Pulsar Generator (nupg): compositional practice, digital sound synthesis model and their temporalities
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dc.title.alternative
The New Pulsar Generator (nuPG): compositional practice, digital sound synthesis model and their temporalities
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dc.type
Thesis or Dissertation
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dc.type.qualificationlevel
Doctoral
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dc.type.qualificationname
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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