Music and Electro-sonic Art
Gordon Graham · 2007
Abstract In this paper I want to discuss two questions. First, is electro-acoustic music, music? And, second, how important is the answer we give to this question? Though the term ‘electro-acoustic music’ now has a wide currency, using it to explore this issue is clearly a recipe for confusion, and so I shall use the term ‘electro-sonic art’ instead. The questions thus become: is sonic art the same as music? And does it matter whether it is or not? Or, to put the second question in a slightly different way, is music the whole of sonic art? I shall begin with some reflections on the nature of music.