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Third Practice has always been interested in exploring the relationship between contemporary electroacoustic music and the musical past. To what degree does new technology suggests new modes of musical expression? To what extent do new techniques of music production and dissemination represent a break with received notions of musical composition and consumption? Or is it perhaps more accurate to think of electroacoustic music as a continuation of a shared musical heritage? That there is no simple answer to these questions reflects the richness and diversity of technical and aesthetic approaches to electroacoustic music. To investigate these questions Third Practice commissioned 13 composers and sound artists to write brief pieces that reflect on, reinterpret, comment on, recompose or reconsider past musical compositional techniques, practices, specific works, genres, styles, forms, practices, concerns in light of contemporary multi-channel electroacoustic music. The pieces are being premiered at the 2006 Third Practice Festival and will be released on the Everglade label.

The commissioned composers and sound artists:

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