Foreword / Simon Emmerson -- Introduction / Marc Estibeiro -- Part 1. Collaboration. Electronics as a Member of The Ensemble / Kerry Hagan ; Composing With Instruments and Live Electronics / Sohrab Uduman ; Forty Years of Live Electro-Acoustic Music : Reflections on a Continuing Partnership. / Duncan Chapman and Mike McInerney ; Music in Vision : Visual Music Instruments in Practice / Dave Payling ; Autonomous Music Systems with Agency / Jason Palamara -- Part 2. Engagement. Formuls : An Electronic Musical Instrument for Synthesis Based Composition and Performance / James Dooley ; Overtone Music / Hubert Howe ; Spatial Sonorous Objects and Their Creative Use : A Framework for The Analysis Of Spatialisation / Stefano Catena ; Sound as Method : Creative Textual Practices as Critical Rewritings / Lauren Redhead -- Part 3. Tradition. Scratching, Past and Future : Cataloguing the Scholarship on Turntablism and Controllerism, And an Introduction to Their Emerging Affiliated Practices and Communities / Manoli Moriaty ; Composing with Ambisonics : An Electroacoustic Practitioner's Guide / Mikel Kuehn ; Audiovisualisation : Reviving the Spectre of Optical Sound and Structural/Materialist Film / Ryo Ikeshiro ; Events and Continuums : The Audiovisual Composition 'Estuaries 4' / Bret Battey ; From Stochastic Music to Quantum Music / Rodney DuPlessis ; Exploring the Musical Potential and Non-Hierarchical Signal-Noise Relationships in MP3 Compression Technologies using Musical Composition / Jim Reeve-Baker ; Motion Capture for Musical Expression / Charles Nichols

"Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music: NoiseFloor Perspectives offers insights into practices at the forefront of modern music making and is built on a rich collection of concerts and talks, representing over a decade of artistic insight and creative practice showcased at the annual NoiseFloor event. Exploring the themes of collaboration, engagement and tradition, this cutting-edge collection offers chapters on a range of pressing issues, including AI in music, audiovisual composition, environmental sound, and interactive sound systems. NoiseFloor's aim is to showcase research and original works by international music composers and performers and has attracted prolific artists in a wide range of related fields - many of whom have contributed to this volume. This book provides a timely snapshot of new and emerging developments in the broad field of contemporary music-making. Collaboration, Engagement, and Tradition in Contemporary and Electronic Music will be of interest to postgraduates and advanced undergraduates working in the areas of contemporary music, electronic music, and music technology. This book is also ideal for composers, artists, and researchers investigating theoretical concepts and compositional practices in contemporary music" -- från omslagets baksida