> All they set out to do is describe and formalise practice in stochastic music and microsound respectively.<div><br></div><div>Formalized Music has a lot more beyond stochastic music (fyi, the original french edition is now available for free in pdf). And the analysis tools and methodologies in Microsound are an essential complement to any musician interested in looking at sound and music at that scale--one could say at the sub-note level--something no other book covers in such a systematic way.</div>
<div><br></div><div>> I am hardly the expert you need, since I have not read the work either. Apparently a translation is in process.</div><div>> I hazard that a good deal of it seems to be concerned with a formal typography of sonic material.<br>
><br>> If you are more interested in philosophical models then examine Schaeffer's four listening modes</div><div><br></div><div>All of that is in the Traité. The formal _typography_ (?) -- a better word would perhaps be typology -- is but a chapter of the book. Topics covered range from the basic act of doing/making music, be it by playing an instrument or doing acousmatic music, capturing sound, all the way to music as a discipline. Quite a wide range, and one that fills its 700 pages densely.</div>
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