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Item Nexus Project: three electro-acoustic compositions.(2012-05) Wartchow, Brett A.This Ph.D. dissertation consists of three compositions--a concert piece, an intermedia collaboration, and a structured improvisation--presented as digital audio recordings. This project aimed to meet two objectives. At the most conceptual level I attempted to explore how uniquely conceived electro-acoustic sound design could, as both a compositional tool and performance environment, simultaneously accentuate and obliterate the boundaries of individual performance gesture. My second goal was to create three elegantly conceived compositions and present them as digital audio recordings. This accompanying paper details the project's underpinning concepts and the creative processes resulting in its realization.Item Resonant Trajectories(2015-05) Curiale, JosephAbstract My musical composition, Resonant Trajectories is the first entirely electronic PhD dissertation in Music Composition in the history of the University of Minnesota School of Music. Based on NASA's Voyager deep space missions, the six-movement composition exemplifies how software-based virtual instruments have largely replaced their historical hardware predecessors in the creation of modern music and, to some degree, modern film scores. Embellished with virtuosic electric bass and electric guitar solos, and recorded to a music industry-standard digital platform, the audio component of the dissertation is accompanied by this written essay that offers complete technical data and detailed synthesizer sound generation and effects parameters, recording track diagrams, and compositional insights. This musical endeavor not only helps bridge art, science, and culture, but also blurs the boundaries between musical genres and performance spaces (the concert hall vs. the disco). It brings Trance-generated, electronic dance music sounds and rhythms (EDM) and Jazz improvisation to traditional concert music audiences, at the same time giving pop music dance audiences the opportunity to experience elements of their music synthesized for the concert hall.Item The Wunderkammer Interface(2017-05) Klein, BenjaminThe Wunderkammer Interface is a nonhierarchical composition that invites an improvising musician to interact with twenty-five modules of composed digital audio processing. The musician who is engaging with the interface has the option to activate these modules independently, as a progression, or as overlapping processing schemes. The Wunderkammer Interface was designed in the SuperCollider audio processing environment. The interactive structure of The Wunderkammer Interface is based on the fluidity between the roles of creator, participant, and listener possible through this work. The performances described in this paper demonstrate unique realizations of The Wunderkammer Interface through different interactions with the interface.