Composer Chagas reflects critically on key topics of contemporary music and aesthetics by drawing on his own artistic experience as a composer and his research into musical semiotics,
electroacoustic and digital music, and audiovisual and multimedia composition. He discusses musical understanding: Wittgenstein, ethics, and aesthetics; spectral semiotics: sound, temporality,
and affect in Chopin; communication and meaning: music as social system; the creativity of electroacoustic and digital music; the temple of electronic music: the Electronic Music Studio of
Cologne in the 1990s; and audiovisual and multimedia composition: the relationship between medium and form. Distributed in the US by Cornell University Press. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc.,
Portland, OR (protoview.com)
