Open Relationship: An Original Multimedia Musical Composition with Commentary

• Main Authors: Kao, Jui-Fu, 高睿甫
• Other Authors: Tung, Chao-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74120722476497443415

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 音樂研究所 === 100 === “Open relationship” refers to allowing members in a relationship to create the same kind of relationship with outsiders, usually in a romantic or sexual suggestion. I use the idiom, which is feared and stigmatized by the masses, as the title of my multimedia musical composition drawing materials from my experiences as a practitioner of open relationship. This article is the commentary and interpretation of this composition, including exploration of several compositional ideas and analysis of musical form. In the beginning of this composition, different numeric codes are used as arrangement of melodic design, the rondo form as the basis of open form, and a 16-hole chromatic harmonica as the only acoustic instrument. In the middle section, a solo part of pre-recorded tape music made of diverse news clips and jural interpretations are amplified in stereo. In the final, a real-time programmed interaction in SuperCollider describes the open relationship between the acoustic harmonica and synthesized sound from computer. The application of chromatic harmonica and SuperCollider is also briefly introduced in this article.