Seeing Change: Techniques of Transition in the Three-Dimensional Space of Recorded Popular Song
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Date
2015-11
Authors
Zatarain, Maxwell Christian
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University of Oregon
Abstract
This thesis presents a study of the recorded form of popular music
through a visual lens. It seeks to show how we conceive of music visually through
spatio-visual language such as high-pitch and low-pitch, and how these spatio-visual
conceptual metaphors point towards the recorded from as a spatio-visual space. Second,
it seeks to define the parameters of this three-dimensional spatio-visual space through
the three axes of height, width, and depth. Third, it seeks to identify and define
techniques of transition used by producers and musicians seeking to navigate the
moment to moment transitions that give music its vitality.
Description
64 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Music and Dance and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Winter 2015.
Keywords
Music, Popular music, Pop music, Record production, Arranging techniques