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[Shane Sanders]

Have a listen to my Chemical Wedding album. You'll find many examples of purely timbral motifs being exploited.

http://www.shanesanders.com/ronin/music.php

[Shane Sanders]

For the most part, I've had the best experiences in making purely academic type electronic music using a good multitrack audio app. I use Adobe Audition. I don't normally use MIDI at all to trigger events, preferring to manually place them on the timeline.

I create "events", born out of experimenting with synths and field recording, and I catalog them over a long period of time. When I have enough building block stuff, I start to find ways to combine them compositionally. I tend to build phrases and episodes, which then become chained together to form a more classical 'shape' (like beginning-middle-climax-end shapes).

I think everyone should hear the early stuff like Subotnick, Verese, Stockhausen, etc.

Also, the books by Leonard Meyer might help you quite a lot, especially "Music, the Arts, and Ideas".

[Shane Sanders]

You can obtain listening copies of many things using Interlibrary loans in the USA. A lot of things you'd want to hear are out of print and you ain't gonna find it on iTunes.

[LauraMichelJarre]

Some of Peter Gabriel's ideas on timbre and rhythm are interesting. I recall he did a lot of work with binaural microphones etc