Textural Composition and its Space

The aesthetic implications of real-time stochastic sound mass composition call for a new approach to musical material and spatialization. One possibility is found in the fertile ground of musical texture. Texture exists between notions of the singular sound object and the plurality of a sound mass or lo-fi soundscape. Textural composition is the practice of elevating and exploring the intermediary position between the single and the plural while denying other musical attributes. The consequences of this aesthetic principle require a similarly intermediary spatialization conducive to textural listening. This spatialization exists between point-source diffusion and mimetic spatialization. Ultimately, the ramifications of textural composition affect both the space in the sound and the sound in space. This paper introduces the intermediary aesthetics of textural composition focusing on its spaces. It then describes an implementation in the author's work, real-time tape music III.