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Strumming Bit Strings: Exploring Digital Instrumentality and Liveness in Electroacoustic Music through the Transformation of Guitar Sounds (2025)

Michael Lukaszuk

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This exposition explores how different technologically mediated presentations of guitar sounds work as materials to form an acousmatic electroacoustic composition. By juxtaposing processed guitar recordings with computer-generated realizations of guitar sounds, this work considers how composition can be used to engage with changing interpretations of instrumentality and liveness that stem from new music technologies. This includes the notion that such concepts can be an integral part of a sound work that uses fixed media. Here, listening to the boundaries between real and virtual guitars is more than just a technical feature. It informs stylistic choices and references different genre trajectories in electroacoustic music. The featured piece, "Obsession", is used to discuss changing approaches to dealing with the abstraction of source material, hybridization, and algorithmic procedures as aspects of acousmatic music. Additionally, the piece serves as an investigation of the guitar as a unique electroacoustic instrument. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordselectroacoustic music, acousmatic music, Instrumentality, Guitar, liveness, post-acousmatic
date28/10/2025
published28/10/2025
last modified28/10/2025
statuspublished
affiliationUmeƄ University
copyrightMichael Lukaszuk
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2833578/2833579
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2833578
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue36. 36


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