The Compositional Processes of Electroacoustic Composers: Contrasting Perspectives
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This paper explores composers’ approaches to composition, organising their work, and attitudes to the tools and technology. This qualitative naturalistic study involved in-depth interviews with four composers, and inductive data analysis. It concludes that individual differences have software implications, and a challenge for composition software designers therefore lies in the heterogeneity of their user population.
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