Le 1er juillet 2017
de 14h00 à 14h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3203
Séance - Electronic and Mixed Music
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Giacomo Albert
This paper stems from a reflection on fundamental issues regarding the analysis of e-sketches: how can we investigate them? Could their analysis open up new perspectives to the analysis of compositional processes? Would it be possible to develop a formalized representation of their basic architecture? In order to deal with these questions, I will investigate the relationship between compositional techniques and software architecture in a case study: the music of Marco Stroppa.
Stroppa has developed many Computer Aided Compositional (CAC) tools through the years, that he collected in a programming environment named Chroma; thus, the evolution of his compositional techniques is paralleled by the gradual development of Chroma. Therefore, we can examine the relationship between these two elements through a compared analysis of Stroppa’s musical works, and, from the other hand, the architecture of his CAC tools.
In order to achieve this goal, several architectures of Chroma and Stroppa’s compositional techniques have been formalized and re-encoded in a computational ontology, so to produce a representation of their primitive elements and of their relationships. By that way it is possible to gain a deeper understanding of the evolution of Stroppa’s compositional praxis. I will present the analysis of few little musical excerpts from the works Traiettoria, Spirali, Proemio and Zwielicht, stressing the relationship between the cognitive architectures of the CAC programs, and music structures.
