Le 1er juillet 2017
de 14h30 à 15h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3203
Séance - Electronic and Mixed Music
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteurs : Michael Clarke, Frédéric Dufeu et Peter Manning
The TaCEM project, funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by the three authors of this communication, has been investigating the relationship between technological innovation and creative processes on the basis of nine case studies from the electroacoustic repertoire. For each case study, both historical and analytical considerations have been tackled; for the latter aspect, an interactive aural approach has been adopted, leading to an important work of analysis-oriented software development. This communication addresses a particular subset of the TaCEM project case studies: those involving performers and live electronics, namely Philippe Manoury’s Pluton for piano and 4X (1988), Jonathan Harvey’s Fourth String Quartet (2003), and Cort Lippe’s Music for Tuba and Computer (2008). The software developed as part of the project aims at facilitating the analysis of the music as sound and implements emulations of the technologies employed by the composers. Depending on the composer’s aesthetic project, a digital environment for music performance can produce a variety of musical outputs that largely exceeds the classical instrumental model: for instance, time-varying timbral behaviour, generation of gestural-dependent sequences, spatialisation of the sound projection. Analysing such processes cannot only rely on the examination of the score, often limited regarding the electronic production, and on the existing recordings, only offering one musical result amongst many other possible configurations. Therefore, engaging with a software reconstruction of the studied processes enables the analyst to explore the entire set of musical possibilities and its relationships with the gestures of the performers.
