4 papers
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…
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…
The evolution of inharmonicity and noisiness in contemporary popular music
Emmanuel Deruty, David Meredith, Stefan Lattner
Much of Western classical music relies on instruments based on acoustic resonance, which produce harmonic or quasi-harmonic sounds. In contrast, since the mid-twentieth century, po…