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)
Compositional Formalization
Doctoral Thesis, under supervision of Iannis Xenakis
Computer Sound Synthesis
General overview of computer sound synthesis in 1982
Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti
Notes on the realization of the tape part of Jonathan
Harvey's work Bhakti, using Music V. In
collaboration with Jonathan Harvey et al. (1984)
- In French ("Notes sur la réalisation de Bhakti",
in L'IRCAM, une pensée musicale, Tod Machover, éd.,
Paris, Éditions
des archives contemporaines, 1984, pp. 117-137)
- English version ("Notes on the realization of Bhakti",
Contemporary
Music Review, vol I, part 1, Musical Thought at
IRCAM, Tod Machover, ed., 1984, pp. 111-129)
- English version ("Notes on the realization of Bhakti",
Computer
Music Journal, vol. VIII, n° 3, Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, 1984, pp. 74-78, with sound examples)
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 rhythmical in the other. The implementations
and contexts are described. Results are presented (2009)
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)
- English version ("A Panoply of Stochastic 'Cannons'", in
ROADS, Curtis, ed.: The Music Machine: Selected
Readings from Computer Music Journal,
Cambridge, Mass., 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
Lyon
Pedagogical description and
reflection (1998 and 1999)
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