Research Of Jeffrey Stolet’s Interactive Electronic Music Compositions

In the past70years, electronic music has experienced four development stages and evolved into three performance forms, including pure electronic music, hybrid electronic music and multimedia electronic music. Nowadays, the creation and performance focus on interactive electronic music, which relies on computer technology and network technology and has multiple media and various performance art forms.Jeffery Stolet has been engaged in the creation of interactive electronic music for more than ten years. A prominent feature of his works is the use of data driven musical instruments. He is also the first composer in the world to have applied the Nintendo gaming units in the creation of interactive electronic music, including audio technology, visual technology and sensor technology, etc. Jeffery’s interactive electronic music works are not only mature in technology, but also artistic and innovative. It is because as a traditional musician, he pays much attention to the artistic quality and innovation in terms of performance theme and creation methods, etc. In the paper, several of Jeffery’s interactive electronic music works are analyzed from the perspective of technology and artistic quality, to summarize his composing characteristics. And the composing characteristics of interactive electronic music are further studied, to enrich and innovate the creation of interactive electronic music, and to summarize the theoretical system of interactive electronic music.This paper consists of three parts. The first part is the analysis of the historical background of Jeffery’s interactive electronic music creation, including the development of interactive media art. In the second part, five representative interactive electronic music works of Jeffery are analyzed, including the creation background, technological means and artistic means, etc. The third part is the summary of the features of Jeffery’s interactive electronic music creation, including technical and artistic quality, interactivity and integration, as well as a comparison with the works of Chinese composers.