Musical space can function as a compositional component rather than a retrofitted edit

Evidence

Space comes as standard with the Junior Boys. The synthpop that inspired them remained attached, for the most part, to the three-minute format; ‘extended’ remixes were a concession to the imperatives of dance. Only one of So This is Goodbye’s 10 tracks is under four minutes. Space is integral, not only to their sound, but to their songs. Space is a compositional component, a presupposition of the songs, not something retrospectively inserted at a producer’s whim. The pauses, the imagist-allusiveness of the lyrics, the breathy phrasing would not work, or make much sense, outside a plateau-architecture imported from dance; crushed into three minutes Junior Boys’ songs would lose more than length. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 485

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘space as a compositional component’ means in music: pauses and pacing presupposed by the song, not production afterthought.
• XREF: connects to: Music became spatialized rather than an object offered for contemplation — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655; Mixing recorded spaces creates a new kind of listening space — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 280; Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Music became spatialized rather than an object offered for contemplation #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 655
• Mixing recorded spaces creates a new kind of listening space #expands (0.80) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 280
• Soundscapes can be deliberately orchestrated like musical compositions #expands (0.75) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 794
• The entire soundscape can be treated as one ongoing musical composition #expands (0.72) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 669