-music notation in today's era.
In today's increasingly multipolar society, it seems that what has been set in people's consciousness is gradually disintegrating. In the process of dissolving old things, new things are mercilessly abandoned and selectively absorbed at the same time. Just as the digital love style after the appearance of computers diluted the romantic atmosphere of ancient people, computers also provided new tools, new working methods, new ways of thinking and inexhaustible new artistic expression space for music to explore new sound sources, develop new sounds and create new music, liberated the "productivity" of music and completed the evolution from "analog sound era" to "digital sound era". It provides more possibilities for us to create music. There are traces of electronic music from academic music to commercial songs, as well as advertising music and movie soundtracks, so electronic concerts have become the music notation of our time! Of course, as a music form different from traditional music, it may not be accepted by people for a long time, which is normal, but this does not mean that it has no vitality. Realistically speaking, whether you accept it or not, with the further development of computer technology, electronic music has really swaggered into our lives. As Zhang said, "Music is the art of sound. Different sound structures constitute different musical languages, different musical languages express different musical ideas, and different musical ideas bring different musical feelings to people. Only by keeping up with the times and the development of science and technology can all art forms gain new vitality. The life of art lies in innovation. As composers, we can't always look at the backs of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and dare not innovate or surpass them. " In fact, every technological progress in human society is almost an extension of human body and consciousness, and the appearance of electronic music has also raised this extension to a new height with its unique advantages. It is precisely because of these unique advantages of electronic music that it conforms to the pulse of music in today's era, and it is also because of these unique advantages of electronic music that it has become music notation in today's era.
The concept of electronic music has been introduced and explained in many books and online articles. I won't go into details in this article, because I have explained it in this article. Here, I will make a brief analysis of the important advantages of electronic music as a new music form compared with traditional music, so that friends can have a more comprehensive understanding of electronic music, because it is these advantages that make it have a strong vitality and make it a symbol of the music of the times.
First of all, electronic music relies on a kind of computer equipment, not the music itself, and has great freedom in creation; On the one hand, a lot of music is not created in the traditional way, but is "created" by machines with human imagination; Computers can splice, cut, paste and synthesize all kinds of music at will. Therefore, some people say that "electronic music is the witness of technology, with technology to witness music, with music to witness technology;" Electronic music is a betrayal of traditional music; Electronic music is the first art to embrace the information age. "。
Aiming at traditional music, electronic music puts forward a brand-new concept of music; Established a brand-new technical route; Found an infinite sound source; Excavate a broad performance space.
1. It completely breaks through the "fixed" traditional thinking mode inherent in people's musical concepts.
This breakthrough is from music content to music form, from music creation form to music communication mode, from music organization principle to music development logic ..... We only take the music organization principle as an example, and the basic characteristics of traditional music can be vividly summarized as "organizing notes" in the form of linear thinking-that is, rhythm is formed in the form of beat rhythm, melody is formed in the form of pitch organization, mode system is formed in the form of scale combination, and vertically it is formed in the form of harmony. The organizational feature of electronic music is to "organize the sound" in a nonlinear way, that is, to record and sample the original sound in the early stage, to process the sound in the middle stage, including various electronic ways to change and process the sound prototype, so that it can produce fission and various deformation treatments, local track and local collage, various montage combination editing and local synthesis, and the overall synthesis in the later stage.
2. Electronic music is a special art which is highly combined with music art and electronic technology.
This particularity determines that artists engaged in this art must be compound talents with the same excellent musical thinking and technical thinking. Compared with composers who only write music scores, the technical and operational "science and engineering" components in the knowledge structure of composers engaged in electronic music are obviously important; Specifically, in addition to mastering the basic techniques of "liberal arts" in music creation, such as the "four-piece set" of traditional composition techniques (as well as acoustics, formalism, counterpoint and orchestration), it is also necessary to master the "four-piece set" of science and engineering (music acoustics, electronic technology, recording technology and computer technology), which complement each other and are indispensable. Today's computer, like the electric guitar and piano in the last century, is a very common musical instrument. More often, composition and performance are combined, which is a feature of electronic music. A person can finish the work in the laboratory and operate the musical instrument, which is both composing and playing, without needing a lot of tedious rehearsals like traditional music, so it is difficult to unify opinions, saving both manpower and time.
3. Electronic music introduces the concept of space into the performance category of music for the first time.
Electronic music first introduced the concept of space into the category of music expression. The main form of transmission of traditional music is the concert performance site. In this way, in addition to the music sound itself, the physical conditions such as the volume and area of the concert hall and the acoustic treatment of the environment determine the final sound result, which is a concrete, tangible, fixed and closed sound field concept. Electronic music uses a combination of software and hardware. Create and explore a virtual, intangible, plastic, flowing and open sound field concept, and go further. As a clear sound field, the concrete space of music performance is realistic and tangible, and its second meaning is to provide us with a virtual space that can be imagined freely, played freely and invisible through scientific and technological means.
4. Electronic music-composer's new thinking and artistic expression space.
1 & gt； Electronic music, as a carrier, can integrate language sounds and other sounds that are difficult to enter in traditional music.
If electronic music is used as a carrier, it can be integrated into the human voice of the language and other traditional sounds that are difficult to appreciate. It can be seen in many electronic music works, which is incomparable to traditional music. For example, in the work Song of the North Sea, the composer systematically loaded the linguistic singing (bearing the cultural symbols of the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years-three-character classics, hundreds of surnames, Taoist chanting and Beijing opera chanting). Music should not only convey an abstract spirit to modern people, but also give people a concrete cultural hint. When people listen to this beautiful music, the composer hopes that people can think and think in front of these ancient cultural symbols.
The appearance of 2> electronic music makes traditional music elements lose their dominant position.
Electronic music, especially audio electronic music, usually brings us unfamiliar timbre, strange sounds and unpredictable rhythm combinations. Compared with creating music works for traditional media, the appearance of audio-visual electronic music means that composers have new space for thinking and expression. Due to the addition of a large number of audio materials without accurate pitch, melody, harmony, tonality and other musical elements based on accurate pitch have lost their previous dominant position. Because the flow of audio-visual electronic music can't be viewed by the rhythm law in the usual sense, the beat hardly exists. In other words, musical elements such as beat, harmony, tonality and melody have been diluted. In addition, electronic music is integrating more and more methods, means, ideas and styles; Especially in the trend of globalization of music creation, western techniques such as splicing, collage and combination and eastern techniques such as blending, deformation and expansion are increasingly applied to the same music, which have become the characteristics of audio-visual electronic music.
3> To some extent, electronic music has revolutionized traditional music.
For modern composers, the sounds created by vocal music and instrumental music are extremely limited, but through computers and auxiliary equipment, we can create unheard-of sounds, which are not limited by common instruments and performers. It can also speed up and simplify the audio production process and eliminate the tedious work of connecting audio equipment. Sometimes, simply changing the instructions can easily produce different versions of the same work, and so on. In this sense, computers have expanded people's imagination of sound and speed, and this expansion is endless. Therefore, it can be said that the arrival of the information age provides new tools, new ways of working, new ways of thinking and inexhaustible new artistic expression space for music to explore new sound sources, develop new sounds and create new music and new forms of expression. The essential difference from traditional music lies in that it has broken the basic pattern of traditional music expressing musical ideas with "vocal language" and "instrumental language" for thousands of years, and the limitations of various conventional manual operation methods. Instead, any sound can enter music, changing the traditional notation. It adopts many soft electronic creation methods, establishes the development idea that electronic music depends on science and technology, and explores a brand-new music field with advanced technical means. Just like avant-garde and electronic music, traditional concepts such as melody, harmony and form have been eliminated. Some artists not only embrace technology and are obsessed with machines, but also worship all the shortcomings, mistakes and crises brought by technology and machines; However, they are very excited about the wrong operation and irregular use of the machine, such as the needle jump of CD player and the error of program logic. They call it false aesthetics.
In fact, electronic music has many advantages, which are the characteristics that make it a symbol of music in today's era. I believe that the future development trend will have new highlights. No matter what you think of electronic music, it has become an indisputable fact that electronic music is becoming more and more popular because of its advantages. And now many countries in the world have set up specialized electronic music laboratories and research institutions, which are generally located in universities and radio stations. The future of electronic music has become positive and colorful, not confused. Now it has entered a fixed track, conforming to the pulse of the times and developing normally.