To Be and Not to Be: Aspects of the Interaction between Instrumental and Electronic Compositional Methods

The author provides an overview of the many consequences that the arrival of electroacoustic music has produced on musical material and discusses the advantages of an interaction between manifest instrumental and “subjacent” electroacoustic writing. By writing, the author means the compositional processes themselves, His discussion ranges from the use of particular harmonic techniques to the revolutionary role that time expansion plays in obtaining a deeper perception and evaluation of the sound phenomena. The author uses some of his works to exemplify the compositional aspects discussed.