Transient Delete: Original Composition with a Critical Examination of the Compositional Process and a Survey of Digital Technology in Opera Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Transient Delete: Original Composition with a Critical Examination of the Compositional Process and a Survey of Digital Technology in Opera

Creator

  • Author: Shirey, Benjamin, 1985-
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Nelson, Jon Christopher
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Stout, David, 1955-
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Minor Professor
  • Committee Member: May, Andrew, 1968-
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
    Additional Info: www.unt.edu

Date

  • Creation: 2016-05

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This paper explores various technologies available to the modern composer and utilized in recent modern opera, providing creative approaches to producing aural, visual, and theatrical performance environments. It also explores my own use of digital technology in Transient Delete. Transient Delete is a digital miniature-opera that explores different aspects of a community of post-human cyborgs. The story follows Iméra, a newly converted cyborg as she acclimates herself to this new cybernetic existence. During this process she meets several other cybernetic entities that are there to help guide her through her metamorphosis.
  • Physical Description: vi, 133 pages : illustrations, music

Subject

  • Keyword: Opera
  • Keyword: Digital opera
  • Keyword: Transhumanism
  • Keyword: Posthuman
  • Keyword: Cyborgs
  • Keyword: Motion capture
  • Keyword: MIDI controlers
  • Keyword: Composition
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Composition (Music)
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Opera.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Electronic composition.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Operas -- Scores.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Electronic music.
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Academic theses
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Operas
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Scores

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights Holder: Shirey, Benjamin, 1985-
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: submission_81
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc849752

Degree

  • Degree Name: Master of Arts
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Academic Department: Division of Composition Studies
  • College: College of Music
  • Degree Discipline: Music
  • Degree Publication Type: thesi
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

Note

  • Embargo Note: The work will be published after approval.
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