Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu.

• Main Author: Rataj, Michal
• Other Authors: Slavický, Milan
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: Akademie múzických umění v Praze. Hudební fakulta AMU. Knihovna 2006
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-78240

The main purpose of the present thesis is to search for ways of methodological orientation within reflection of electroacoustic music, seen through the prism of what has been recently called acoustic arts. The way we try to formulate such positioning deals with particular methodological tasks: we try to generate space in which it is possible to think of ?artistic discourses? within acoustic arts; subsequently, the thesis describes the specific discourse of electroacoustic music/ radioart, explaining it from the viewpoint of the Czech radio-art producer. The first part of the thesis gives an account of the general atmosphere of electroacoustic music reflection (mainly referring to the German theoretical context); while doing so, certain points has been found problematic, namely the tendencies to use the term electroacoustic music in order to signify the multitude of contemporary technology- and media-based art practice. What we try to propose is a sort of progression within such musicological and artistic reflections: let us think of electroacoustic music in terms of its ? mainly ? historical category of the 1950s?1960s period, which can be described in relatively consistent terms of music avant-garde, as well as of new means of technology- and media-based music arising, more or less, from the Euro-American tradition of musical thinking. Thus, the very free, ?interactive? and discursive space of acoustic arts might be revealed (in terms of artistic statements trying to emphasize the ?auditive? in contrast to the visual), which electroacoustic music ? in its historical sense ? is a part of. Having formulated such methodological and reflective points of view, we can proceed to the topic of radio art itself. From the very beginning, the main inspiration for such topic orientation has been our production activities within Czech Radio that have dealt with the experimental Czech radioart scene. First, we present selected concepts of radioart and contemporary production practices, focused on European public service radios, drawing on our personal work experience in such an international institutional frame.