Unsayable Music

Paulo C. Chagas is Professor of Composition at the University of California, Riverside, member of the International Project on Music Signification, and composer of acoustic, electroacoustic, and audiovisual music. He is active in Europe, Brazil, and the United States.

• Introduction1. Musical Understanding: Wittgenstein, Ethics, and Aesthetics 2. Spectral Semiotics: Sound, Temporality, and Aff ect in Chopin 3. Communication and Meaning: Music as Social System 4. The Creativity of Electroacoustic and Digital Music 5. The Temple of Electronic Music: The Electronic Music Studio of Cologne in the 1990s 6. Audiovisual and Multimedia Composition: The Relationship between Medium and Form APPENDIX I WDR Studio of Electronic Music: Works produced from 1987 to 2000 APPENDIX II WDR Studio of Electronic Music: Studio equipment used from 1990 to 2000 Bibliography

"Paulo C. Chagas is one of those remarkable composers well versed not only in the methods and means of musical creation but also in theoretical issues of aesthetics, semiotics, mathematics, and philology. This book displays an exceptional grasp of a wide range of complex theoretical and philosophical issues, all of them nonetheless directly connected to the act of composing music. Indeed, it is precisely because of his passionate intellectual engagement that Chagas's music always exhibits emotional immediacy as well as technical sophistication. Both his works and his ideas draw their inspiration from the wellspring of daily life and its frequently harsh realities."-Walter Clark, University of California, Riverside