The Sounds And Structures Of Pierre Jodlowski's Dialog/No Dialog

Electro-Acoustic Music,established in accordance with the development of human scientific technology,is a new musical language which is different from the traditional western music in sound production and sound organization.With the emancipation of noise at the beginning of twentieth century,many more ways of producing and organizing music have become possible.Also,with further scientific development, music is able to explore new fields with the help of computers and related software.It has been more than one hundred years(1907-2008) since Electro-Acoustic Music germinated; from the very beginning stage of being merely free from the constraints of the twelve-tone system to the era of simulation of copying and pasting by using scissors and glue to the current digital era operated and controlled by the software,Electro-Acoustic Music has tremendously developed its channels of creativity.During its development,Electro-Acoustic Music not only has developed and benefited its own creativity,but also has it deeply influenced the creation of non electro-acoustic music.The new concepts of sound produced by Electro-Acoustic Music result in the new sound production and new organization techniques.These new techniques and new musical reasoning not only benefit Electro-Acoustic Music's own creativity,but also has instructional meaning to the creation of non electro-acoustic music.Therefore,it is highly necessary to analyze a composition which combines Electro-Acoustic Music and western traditional musical instrument;furthermore the analysis may provide musicians a technical model for composing.This thesis will focus on the work Dialog/No Dialog composed in 1997 for Electro-Acoustic media and flute by French composer Pierre Jodlowski(1971-).The thesis aims to reveal the specific compositional methods and the structural format of current compositions which combine electro-acoustic media and western traditional musical instruments;more specifically,it will analyze the sound,rhythm,timbre of both the electro-acoustic media part and the flute part,and the organization of various parameters appearing when the two parts are combined.This thesis examines the type of Electro-Acoustic Music composition which is created by using electronic techniques and compositional ideas of electro-acoustic music during its compositional process;it doesn't cover the type of music performed by electronic instruments.