Le 30 juin 2017
de 16h30 à 17h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3203
Séance précomposée - Analyser la performance aujourd’hui : enjeux et perspectives
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Pavlos Antoniadis
The suggested paper proposes a concise analysis of Brian Ferneyhough’s Lemma-Icon-Epigram for solo piano from a performer’s embodied perspective. Local and global aspects of Ferneyhough’s work, in the form of multi-parametrical strata of notational information, will be correlated to multimodal performance data collected during the learning and performance processes. Physical gesture and embodiment will be shown as offering unique, performer-specific analytical insights. The methodology consists in the processing of complex notation through multimodal performance data and in the creation of consistent gesture-to-notation mappings. In accordance with Ferneyhough’s suggested top-down learning strategy, we infer a basic gestural patterning from the data and we map our results on to the complex notated parametrical strata. We describe the process as “embodied navigation of complex notation”, a notion which points at the dynamic nature of notation and at the multiplicity of prioritisation processes during the performative interaction with it. At a final stage, we compare our results to the well-known analysis of the same work by Richard Toop. This work is promising for the automatic probabilistic inference of the patterning from multimodal performance data through the application of machine learning techniques. Applications of this methodology range from performance documentation and pedagogy to interactive systems design and score-following.
