Author ORCID Identifier
Semester
Spring
Date of Graduation
2026
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Type
DMA
College
College of Creative Arts
Department
School of Music
Committee Chair
Andrew Kohn
Committee Member
General McArthur Hambrick
Committee Member
Alan Hankers
Committee Member
Andrea Priester Houde
Committee Member
Jake Sandridge
Abstract
The Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) has made sound recording, manipulation, MIDI sequencing, and digital live performance accessible to nearly anyone with a computer and an interest in digital music-making. A DAW’s functionality is modeled on decades of development in analog modular electronic instrument design and sound recording techniques. Theorist and composer Jonathan D. Kramer, through his work in the 1980’s, referred to the invention of sound recording as a catalyst of a temporal discontinuity experienced by Western-trained musicians. Since that time, these same sound recording techniques have become increasingly prevalent in modern society. This document proposes a DAW-based analytical framework for analyzing excerpts from three acoustic works by the twenty-first-century composer Viet Cuong, offering a temporally related lens for interpreting techniques familiar to DAW users to gain interpretive insights.
Recommended Citation
Traugh, Robert Daniel, "A Digital Audio Workstation-Based Analytical Framework for Contemporary Acoustic Music: Modeling Selected Excerpts by Viet Cuong" (2026). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 13309.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/13309