ELECTROACOUSTIC POP DEVELOPING COMPOSITIONAL METHODS BY THE INTEGRATION OF POPULAR MUSIC CREATION TECHNIQUES INTO THE ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC PRACTICE.

This research aims to integrate popular music techniques into the electroacoustic music practice, forming a new niche music style named Electroacoustic pop developing a distinctive approach to composing music within the sound-based music field. These developments were based on a practice-led research in which three hours of music and sound were created exploring different subject withing the field such as: collection of sound material, interaction of sound and noise and public and private spaces, mediation and manipulation of sound, amongst others. The practical experiments consisted of employing popular music creation techniques to organise, manipulate and mediate found sound into various composition, in which the narrative was established by newspaper articles. Recording methods employed in field recordings were included in the experiments exploring how the collection of sound material could have an impact in the outcome of an electroacoustic music composition. This resulted in the development of terminology such as ‘negative sound’, and active and passive field recording. Compositional patterns were developed using popular music plugins and platforms such as Logic Pro X and Pro Tools, combined to the inclusion of microphones and speakers as tools for generating musical pieces. A concrete analytical framework was established by gathering models developed by academics and composers in both the popular and electroacoustic music fields. The general outcome of these experiments helped establishing and recognising a set of unique and noteworthy compositional patterns and methodologies that can be employed in future composition projects. New music creation and consumption approaches were suggested based on the compositional and analytical result of this project