Relate to own musical experiences and cultural outlook to a key piece of formative musicological research

Students will relate their own musical experiences and cultural outlook to a key piece of formative musicological research. 

1. Read Eimert’s article “What is Electronic Music” from the die Reihe music journal Vol. 1. (pp. 1-10) and Chapter 5 of Thom Holmes’ Electronic and Experimental Music (pages 119-123 in 3rd edition of textbook) (both attached) 
2. Locate at least one recent piece of electronic music that you feel exemplifies a creative use of the recording & electronic music studio techniques discussed in the readings. 
3. Guidelines for song choices:
4. current music, created within the last 20 years
5. you may not use pieces that are linked on the syllabus above 3. a link to your song of choice must be provided 
6. Identify specific moments in your composition where you hear a musique concrete approach and cite the use of at least two classic techniques of tape composition (i.e., echo, delay, reverb, loops, signal degeneration, tape reversal, and speed manipulation). Use Eimert’s classifications of electronic sound (tone, note, note mixture, noise, chord, impulse/pulsation, stereophonic distribution etc) to describe the sounds that you are identifying as electronic traits. Please also indicate at what exact time(s) these sounds occur in the piece and provide me with a link to your song so that the timestamps line up for me when I’m listening! 
7. Reflect on Eimert’s article from the 1955 journal and compare with our modern dispositions toward electronic music and finally discuss how you see your musical selection(s) relating to at least one of the Seven Fundamental Traits of Electronic Music outlined in the Holmes text.