The Hyperorchestra: Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles

This book studies the "hyperorchestra" as used in music for the screen and draws from the intersection...
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Author: Sergi Casanelles
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Language: English
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The Hyperorchestra: Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles by Casanelles, Sergi

The Hyperorchestra: Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles

$543.54

The Hyperorchestra: Screen Music and Virtual Musical Ensembles

$543.54
Author: Sergi Casanelles
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This book studies the "hyperorchestra" as used in music for the screen and draws from the intersection of practice and theory. The term hyperorchestra derives from hyperreality, a postmodern philosophical concept coined by Jean Baudrillard. The hyperorchestra is a virtual ensemble that inhabits hyperreality. It approaches music spectrally with the aim of becoming a more effective vessel for meaning generation. The book is informed by concepts from postmodern philosophy, such as hyperreality and Marshall McLuhan's theory of media. The book is also informed by the author's own compositional practice; it describes contemporary processes, current software tools, orchestration and instrumentation principles, and contemporary approaches to music composition (such as spectral music). In doing so, the book proposes a new perspective for analyzing contemporary film music that pinpoints the importance of the relationship between timbre, meaning, and the different narrative levels within an audiovisual piece.



Author: Sergi Casanelles
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/27/2025
Pages: 329
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9783031751929

About the Author

Sergi Casanelles is the program manager of the Screen Scoring program at New York University, where he teaches screen music theory and practice. His class, Contemporary Scoring, covers the practical approaches to composing for the hyperorchestra and applies many of the concepts in this book. As an award-winning composer, he has written concert and screen music. His research and publications focus on the intersection of technology, screen music, theory, and practice.


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