Publications | Writings About My Work

PUBLICATIONS

"On Composition and Literature – Pedr Solis, the author and the opera"
Arcana VIII: Musicians on Music - Ten Year Anniversary Edition pp. 22-39

Stigmart10 Videofocus Special Edition HDR December 2014, pp. 124-134
Spotlight and interview with myself and Arie Stavchansky about our collaboration on Graveshift

"The Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano: an interview with Per Bloland"
SEAMUS Newsletter, August-October, 2014

The Induction Connection (documentation entry)
Manual for Modalys, IRCAM’s physical modeling software, December 2012

"Wet Ink Ensemble" (CD review)
Journal of the Society for American Music Vol. 6 Issue 02, May 2012, pp. 258-261

"Blood that Sees the Light" (CD review)
Journal SEAMUS, Vol. 19 No. 2, Spring 2008, pp. 31-33

“The Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano and its Compositional Implications”
Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 125-128

"The Polarized Composer: Addressing the Conflict of Musical Upbringings of Today's Young Composers"
Proceedings of the Third Annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota, pp. 10-12

WRITINGS ABOUT MY WORK

  • Ottmer, Jacob. Forging Better Practices for Electro-acoustic Music. 2024. University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, DMA Dissertation.
    Discusses my compositional use of electronics.

  • Szpirglas, Jérémie. “Richard Causton & Per Bloland / The Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano ” Ircam (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), Centre Pompidou.
    Part I: 23 June 2023, Richard Causton & Per Bloland 1/4
    Part II: Richard Causton & Per Bloland 2/4
    Part III: The Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano 3/4 : Thomas Hélie
    Part IV: Richard Causton & Per Bloland 4/4 : The Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano – Going the Extra Mile
    A series of four articles and interviews published by IRCAM detailing our research project. Published 2023-2024.

     

  • Pestova, Xenia. “Approaches to Notation in Music for Piano and Live Electronics.” Live Electronic Music: Composition, Performance, Study, edited by Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle and Laura Zattra, Routledge, London, 2019, pp. 131–159.

    Discusses my innovative use of notation to realize unusual performance techniques.

     

  • Power, Ian. “The new musical imaginary: Description as distraction in new music.” Tempo, vol. 73, no. 289, 4 July 2019, pp. 6–20, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040298219000068.
    References my use of program notes to gradually spin out the life story of author Pedr Solis.

     

  • Wagner, Jeremy. “Magnetic Resonator Piano: design and implementation.” CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley, 7 May 2019, www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/projects/magnetic-resonator-piano.

    Inspired in part by my work with the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano.

     

  • Shockley, Alan Frederick. The Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
    Discusses the creation of my Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano.

  • Deneç, Gökhan. Creating sound mass using live sound processing and feedback with sympathetic vibrating strings. 2015. Istanbul Technical University, PhD Thesis.
    Discusses the precedent set by the ElectroMagnetically-Prepared Piano and my compositional use of the device.

     

  • Kallionpää, Maria. Beyond the piano: the super instrument. Widening the instrumental capacities in the context of the piano music of the 21st century. 2014. The University of Oxford, PhD Dissertation.
    Contains a section outlining my creation of the ElectroMagnetically-Prepared Piano.

     

  • Gleiser, Alissa. Harnessing the piano's voltage. 2014. Indiana University, DM Dissertation.
    Discusses my compositional use of the ElectroMagnetically-Prepared Piano.

     

  • Illy, József. Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
    Describes Albert Einstein’s interest in an earlier device using electromagnets to actuate a piano, and our resumption of this work and writings about its compositional uses.

  • Britt, Neil Cameron. Actuated Acoustic Instruments: Relationships And Mind-Sets. 2013. Princeton University, PhD Dissertation.
    Contains a section dedicated to my compositions for the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano.

     

  • Blackley, Doug. The Spectral Piano Project. 2013. University of Alberta, Masters Thesis.
    Discusses the mechanism behind the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano.

     

  • Deemer, Rob. “Found: Three Examples of 21st-Century Music.” New Music USA, 13 Apr. 2012, https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/found-three-examples-of-21st-century-music/.
    Cites my work as an innovative use of electronics in composition.

     

  • Berweck, Sebastian. It worked yesterday: On (re-)performing electroacoustic music. 2012. University of Huddersfield, Doctoral Thesis.
    Discusses the use of electronics in several of my compositions.

     

  • Hunter, Trevor. “Elsewhere Is a Negative Mirror: The Music of Per Bloland.” New Music USA, 18 Nov. 2009.
    Provides an overview of my compositional career, including an interview.

     

  • Berdahl, Edgar. Applications of Feedback Control to Musical Instrument Design. 2009. Stanford University, PhD Dissertation.
    Outlines the structure of and mechanism behind the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano.

     

  • Batzner, Jay C., “Meaning(s) and Structure in The Wondrous Delight of Profound Ineptitude by Per Bloland.” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, pp. 44-46, 2006, University of Minnesota.

     

  • Berdahl, Edgar; Backer, Steven; Smith III, Julius O. “If I Had A Hammer: Design and Theory of an Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain. 2005.
    Outlines the process of developing the first iteration of the electromagnetic piano device.