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Procedures
for creating music that is art
Peter Lucas Hulen
Supplies – to create art music
from scratch one must have:
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Some aspect of human experience to communicate
or bring to consciousness
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A way to communicate or bring to consciousness
some aspect of human experience with sounds organized on a time continuum
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Sounds to organize on a time continuum
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Principles by which to organize the
sounds
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The means of production for organizing
the sounds
Examples of human experience
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Social realities
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Guiding ideas
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Things held important
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Interactions and relationships
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Inward (psychological) experience
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Natural world
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Performed art
Sound identification concepts
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Naming (ring, buzz, vibration, hum,
stream, explosion, wave, outburst, gesture, mass, event, click, etc.)
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Describing by quality/analogy (metallic,
round, warm, blocky, buzzy, fluty, scraping, screaming, etc.)
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Describing temporally (continuous,
intermittent, random, expected, sudden, etc.)
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Placing (source, association, context,
speech text, etc.)
Sound organization concepts
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Material
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Texture (layers, back/middle/foreground,
patches/sound types, transformations [pitch, timbre, duration, quality],
etc.)
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Form (event type and order, discontinuation/return,
etc.)
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Rationally informed e.g. Aaba
Bcdc Aaba Aaba Cefe Bcdc Aaba
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Both rationally and intuitively informed
e.g.

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Psychological (surprise, fulfillment,
shock, recognition, humor, transcendence, disruption, etc.)
Peter
Lucas Hulen is Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of Music at Wabash
College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA.
© 2005 Peter Hulen
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