How Musicians Think About Space
<p>Music is inherently spatial. As it travels from a source to our ears, music is transformed by the air, the surrounding architecture and the shape of our own bodies. The distance between performer and listener is often taken for granted, reduced to a question of “good” or “bad” acoustics. But the musicians featured in this issue of <em>Attention</em> saw the physical gap between performer and listener as a site for musical invention. Through interviews, musical excerpts and acoustical examples, “How Musicians Think About Space” illuminates the hidden role of space in the imagination of composers, performers and producers from across the spectrum of Western art music.</p>
Producer: Willem Boning, Lisa Schiavon
Issue Editor: Willem Boning
Editors: Joseph Bedford, Curt Gambetta
Production Consultant: Griffin Ofiesh
Technical Assistant: Brendan Smith
Announcer: Trudy Watt
Contributors: Jürgen Meyer, Elaine Sisman, Emily Thompson, John Harvith, Susan Edwards Harvith, John Culshaw, Paul Théberge, Yasuaki Shimizu, Daniel Neumann
Translators: Dan Grunebaum
Production Assistant: Kate Klippensteen
Part of: Attention