'Meta / Hodos' by James Tenney

"from 1961 'Meta Hodos.' Subtitled "A Phenomenology of 20th Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form", 'Meta Hodos' identifies a "method" of sonic objectification derived from Gestalt Psychology, Pierre Shaeffer's concept of "objet sonore", and Information Theory among other sources. Incredibly, this profound rethinking of sonic analysis was Tenney's Masters Thesis"
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