Take your idea/concept and do research to find out where it fits in the world of research and develop concept map. Look at your area… what are the terms used, who are the people, where do you find their work, what looks interesting. Record all your observations in the Research Diary. Gathering as much as possible...
Database:
Amazon, NYU libraries, Acm digital library, Youtube
What I searched:
“Avant garde” AND music, Avant garde music AND (bibliography OR sourcebook), “language” AND “music”, “noise” AND (tone OR music), Psychoacoustics, Algorithmic composition, Fluxus
Potentially good books/articles/websites you found + notes or reflection/terms/ideas:
How to Sound Like Steve Reich - ripple effects, kaleidoscope, speech melody
Is John Cage's 4'33'' music?: Prof. Julian Dodd at TEDxUniversityOfManchester - removal of composer’s ego
Inspirational Working Methods: John Cage and the I Ching - I-CHING, Oblique strategies
Transforming Noise Into Music | Jackson Jhin | TEDxUND - Predictability vs variability
Tristan Perich - Microtonal Wall at Interaccess - Walkthrough - microtonal music, demonstration of the relationship between noise and tone
The difference between hearing and listening | Pauline Oliveros | TEDxIndianapolis - expand the perception of sound, vibration, focus and expansion, psychoacoustics
Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony - 1-bit music
The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good?
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
Perceptible processes : minimalism and the baroque
Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde a biocritical sourcebook
Musically incorrect : conversations about music at the end of the 20th century
Anthology of essays on deep listening - Deep Listening's ability to nurture creative work and promote societal change.
Deep listening : a composer's sound practice -how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment. ….Undergraduates with no musical training benefit from the practices and successfully engage in creative sound projects.
Boring formless nonsense experimental music and the aesthetics of failure:
Seeing sound : sound art, performance and music, 1978-2011 : Gordon Monahan