Apollo and the Sixteen Million Colors: Music and New Technologies
Reflection on the
consequences of electroacoustic and computer technologies on music. New
concepts and possibilities, new virtualities, new questions...
Published
in italian ("
La musica e le nuove
tecnologie : Apollo e i sedici
milioni di colori", in
Dal vinile a Internet,
Silva,
Francesco &
Ramello,
Giovanni, editors and translators, Fondazione G. Agnelli, 1999).
Interpolations
The very general and powerful concept
of interpolation can be applied in numerous fields. Such a process has
been experimented in two domains by composition students, beginners in
computer music: spectral interpolations in one case, and rythmical in
the other. The implementations and contexts are described. Results are
presented. (2007)
The Ordinary Adventures of Modernity
Reflection on artistic creation, its
tension between modernism and academism. Do new technologies imply new
musical concepts, or a redefinition of music itself? (1988)
- In French ("Les aventures ordinaires de la modernité", La
traductière, n°6,
Paris, Summer 1988, pp. 62-67). DOWNLOAD
A Panoply of Stochastic "Cannons"
Elements of Probability Theory and of
its applications in music. Mathematics, formulas and algorithms for the
obtention of various
stochastic
(probability)
distributions.
(1980)
- French version (Une panoplie de
canons stochastiques, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980, Rapport
IRCAM n° 30/80). View facsimile
(10 MB)
- English version ("A Panoply of Stochastic 'Cannons'", Computer Music Journal, vol. 4,
n° 1, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1980,
pp. 53-81) and ("A Panoply
of Stochastic 'Cannons'", in
ROADS, Curtis, ed.: The Music
Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal, MIT
Press, 1989, pp. 351-379).
The Pedagogy of Open Environments in the SONVS Electroacoustic and
Computer Music Department of the Conservatoire
national Supérieur de musique of Lyons
Pedagogical description and reflection.
(1998 and 1999)
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