Imagining the source: The interplay of realism and abstraction in electroacoustic music

Contemporary Music Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 73-93

  Young, John ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Acousmatic; Realism; Source recognition; Surrogacy; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61949299000     PISSN: 07494467     EISSN: 14772256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07494469600640371     Document Type: Article

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