A SELECTION OF ARTICLES
A REBIRTH OF RHETORIC IN RECENT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
The rebirth of rhetoric is one of the most striking features that we observe in contemporary music composed after the 1980s. In this paper Zampronha explains what musical rhetoric is, and gives examples of its presence in many works.
*In: KunstMusik - Vol. 7, 2006.
In this text Zampronha explains what abstraction and figuration are in music, and the relationships they establish with sound materials and musical constructions.
* In: Maria de Lourdes Sekeff e Edson Zampronha (org.), Arte e Cultura: Estudos Interdisciplinares II. Ed. Annablume, 2003.
ARTE E CULTURA: MÚSICA E SEMIÓTICA
Zampronha presents an overview on semiotics showing how it happens in music, and discusses the special case of art objects as self-referential objects.
* In: Maria de Lourdes Sekeff (orf.), Arte e Cultura: Estudos Interdisciplinares. Ed. Annablume, 2002.
FORMS OF BEHAVIOUR AND A NEW PARADIGM OF PERCEPTION TO THE PRODUCTION OF NEW SOUNDS
In this short paper Zampronha launches a new hypothesis on how our listening works, and uses this hypothesis as a start point to simulate an alternative method for sound synthesis.
* In: Roy Ascott (Ed.). Art, Technology, Consciousness. Bristol, 2000.