Nobody really knows what it is. But:
- [Sap] "the spectrum as a reference point, and not the main predominating element, when re-interpreted, functions as a declared aesthetic angle of the perception of a music sound", "the spectrum as a point of reference, however, an aspect not fully controlling the compositional process, as was typical of spectralists"
- [Mor] "post-spectralism was opposed to serialism and spectralism, rejecting compositional dogma while still incorporating aspects of both styles into a freer approach"
- [Mor] "a larger coalescence of institutional interests and resources aimed at solving a common problem; namely, the “psychoacoustic problem,” i.e., the difficulty of accounting for the enormous complexity of musical sounds in a computer programming environment."
- [Mor] "liminal space between what is considered music and non-music"
- [Mor] "a whole range of post-spectral compositional practices—i.e., those approaches to composition influenced by a frequency-based mode of thinking, a non-metric scaling of temporalities, an affinity for analysis and synthesis processes, and a commitment to the idea of composition as research into the physics of sound"
- [Gas] "Post-spectral pieces use a method called spatialization of sound, in which electronic sounds or electronically manipulated sounds are perceived to be displaced to multiple spatial points, providing textural variety"
List of composers:
- Philippe Hurel
- Philippe Leroux
- Jonathan Harvey
- Fausto Romitelli
- Kaija Saariaho
- Georg Friedrich Haas
- Hans Zender
- Marc-André Dalbavie
- Magnus Lindberg
- Julian Anderson
- Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir
- Manfred Stahnke
- Nicholas Denton Protsack
- Artun Çekem
- Arash Yazdani
- Turgut Erçetin
- Helena Tulve
- Fabien Lévy
- Ana-Maria Avram
- Éric Tanguy
- François Paris
- Thierry Blondeau
- Toshio Hosokawa
Literature/references:
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music#Post-spectralism
- [Sap] Gabrielius Simas Sapiega "Microtonality in the Post-spectralist Context: Microintervalics in the Compositions of Gabrielius Simas Sapiega and Mārtiņš Viļums"
- Landon Morrison "Encoding Post-Spectral Sound: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Electronic Music at IRCAM, 1982–87"
- [Mor] Landon Morrison "Sounds, Signs, Signals: Transductive Currents in Post-Spectral Music at IRCAM"
- Amy Bauer "Did Someone Say Post-Spectral?’ The Orchestral Imaginary in Millenial Works by Tulve, Dalbavie, and Haas"
- James Donaldson "Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music"
- [Gas] Rebecca Gaspelin "Post-Spectral Techniques Within Vocal Repertoire for Soprano"
- "NYU The Sense of Sound: Spectral and Post-spectral French Music: The Music of Michaël Levinas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi8FMHhAONI
- (unavailable) Paul Clift "Philippe Leroux and the Notion of the Post-Spectral"
- (unavailable) Yayoi Uno Everett "Transcending Ethnicity: Post-Spectral Music by Xu Yi, Anthony Cheung, and Yoshiaki Onishi"
- (unavailable) The Oxford Handbook of Spectral and Post-Spectral Music
- (unavailable) Claes Biehl "Microtonality in the Post-Spectral Era: Developing New Pitch Hierarchies"
