The Spatialisation of Stereophony: Taking Positions in Post-War Electroacoustic Music

Patrick Valiquet · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2011

War, nowhere has spatialisation played such an in tegral role in common practice as in electroacoustic Abstract Resume While an increasing number of technical and musicological studies attest to the sustained aesthetic importance of spatiali sation in electroacoustic music, few have examined the origins of its integration into formal discourse. Tracing a path across a network of commercial, institu tional, technical, and musical actors implicated in the invention of a specifically electroacoustic spatialisation concept, this paper undermines the presumption of formal primacy by focusing on the social and discursive

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