Any electroacoustic, acousmatic composers?

[QuiltSuns]

Hi! First of all I want to wish good luck and a happy and creative new year to everybody.

Second, I wonder if some of you guys know about electroacoustic, acousmatic, etc. composers using Ableton Live and other softwares as a main tool for their work. Do you know any composers in the line of Ligeti, Riley, Penderecki, Reich, etc. using modern software tools? I have been researching on my own and haven't been very successful... Cheers!

[taylordeupree]

morton subotnik may use modern tools as he's still active in playing live and stuff.. but i don't know for sure...

[s_hamann]

morton subotnik may use modern tools as he's still active in playing live and stuff.. but i don't know for sure...

Yeah, there's a video interview with him that shows him using Ableton Live. I'll see if I can find a link to it.

I'm not sure which direction the nomenclature runs on this, but I'd have figured that most of the music that gets talked about on this website could be considered electroacoustic/acousmatic, and I'm guessing many use software like Live. Along the lines of Steve Reich (since they've worked together), Todd Reynolds (Bang on a Can violinist) uses Ableton Live extensively.

[edit] Here's the Subotnick interview:

http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/2/22/electric-independence-morton-subotnick

[mx]

Hi! First of all I want to wish good luck and a happy and creative new year to everybody.

Second, I wonder if some of you guys know about electroacoustic, acousmatic, etc. composers using Ableton Live and other softwares as a main tool for their work. Do you know any composers in the line of Ligeti, Riley, Penderecki, Reich, etc. using modern software tools? I have been researching on my own and haven't been very successful... Cheers!

Most of the older contemporary/acousmatic composers have assistants whose job is to deal with the electronics within the writing of the piece. Even young composers have such assistants. I currently work for the national center for musical creation in Lyon, FR and we welcome contemporary music composers, most of them are young, nevertheless, they work with special assistants to develop the electronic part of the score.

[QuiltSuns]

Thanks! I will check your feedbacks and get back with more info if I find something interesting.

[Koda]

Not sure what he uses but Johan Johannsson incorporates electronics into his compositions.

[Le Berger]

Same for Horacio Vaggione I guess.

I have a hard time coining or defining what constitutes acousmatic composition. To an extent a lot of the people posting here can fit in an enlarged conception and more contemporary view of musique concrète, no?

[QuiltSuns]

Same for Horacio Vaggione I guess.

I have a hard time coining or defining what constitutes acousmatic composition. To an extent a lot of the people posting here can fit in an enlarged conception and more contemporary view of musique concrète, no?

Thanks again for all your feedbacks and... I agree about your comment on the possible definition(s) of what acousmatic could be... I am not that concern about definitions or "labels"... What I am trying to find out is information about people working with Ableton (or simmilar commercial electronic tools) who are not in the dance, ambient or field recording thing (since there are so many of them out there). The example of Morton Subotnik was a good one!
I will check about your suggestions. Thanks!

[s_hamann]

What I am trying to find out is information about people working with Ableton (or simmilar commercial electronic tools) who are not in the dance, ambient or field recording thing (since there are so many of them out there).

Robert Ashley is using Ableton Live, write-ups of his most recent opera, Concrete, noted that the loops were all triggered in Live.

http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Invisible-Performer/
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletS09/GrubbsS09.htm

[billygomberg]

What I am trying to find out is information about people working with Ableton (or simmilar commercial electronic tools) who are not in the dance, ambient or field recording thing (since there are so many of them out there).

Robert Ashley is using Ableton Live, write-ups of his most recent opera, Concrete, noted that the loops were all triggered in Live.

http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Invisible-Performer/
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletS09/GrubbsS09.htm

I'm 99% sure that Tom Hamilton does all of Robert Ashley's programming for Concrete - if I recall the program notes, and the performance, correctly.