7 papers
Methods for Pitch Analysis in Contemporary Popular Music: Multiphonic Tones Across Genres
Emmanuel Deruty, David Meredith, Yann Macé +3
This study argues that electronic tones routinely used in contemporary popular music - including 808-style bass and power chords - are structurally and perceptually equivalent to m…
Evolving music theory for emerging musical languages
Emmanuel Deruty
This chapter reconsiders the concept of pitch in contemporary popular music (CPM), particularly in electronic contexts where traditional assumptions may fail. Drawing on phenomenol…
Methods for pitch analysis in contemporary popular music: multiple pitches from harmonic tones in Vitalic's music
Emmanuel Deruty, David Meredith, Maarten Grachten +5
Aims. This study suggests that the use of multiple perceived pitches arising from a single harmonic complex tone is an active and intentional feature of contemporary popular music.…
Methods for pitch analysis in contemporary popular music: Vitalic's use of tones that do not operate on the principle of acoustic resonance
Emmanuel Deruty, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, David Meredith
Vitalic is an electronic music producer who has been active since 2001. Vitalic's 2005 track "No Fun" features a main synthesiser part built from a sequence of single inharmonic to…
Insights on Harmonic Tones from a Generative Music Experiment
Emmanuel Deruty, Maarten Grachten
The ultimate purpose of generative music AI is music production. The studio-lab, a social form within the art-science branch of cross-disciplinarity, is a way to advance music prod…
Methods for pitch analysis in contemporary popular music: phenomenological analysis of Primaal's commercial works
Emmanuel Deruty, Luc Leroy, Yann Macé +1
This article uses phenomenological analysis to examine pitch-related elements in commercial popular music, focusing on Primaal, a successful electronic music brand whose works have…