Functional — Figure 1.3
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Fig.1.3: Three main archetypes of functional operations
Instrumentation has three main families of functions:
i. Functions that apply on musical elements that aim to be perceived as one entity.
ii. Functions that apply on musical elements that aim to create a perceptual separation [segregation] of entities, either 2a.: vertically (separation of layers, hierarchization of layers such as foreground and background, etc.), or 2b.: horizontally (contrasts, transitions, ‘tree-logic’, etc.)
iii. Functions that apply on musical elements that aim to create Sound-Engineering-like effects. We will call these Sound mastering functions.