During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer's role and the concept of music as performance. This book examines questions related to music that cannot be set in conventional notation, reporting and reflecting on current research and creative practice primarily in live electronic music. It studies compositions for which the musical text is problematic, that is, non-existent, incomplete, insufficiently precise or transmitted in a nontraditional format. Thus, at the core of this project is an absence. The objects of study lack a reliably precise graphical representation of the work as the composer or the composer/performer conceived or imagined it. How do we compose, perform and study music that cannot be set in conventional notation? The authors of this book examine this problem from the complementary perspectives of the composer, the performer, the musical assistant, the audio engineer, the computer scientist and the musicologist.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2017

ISBN

9781317692102

Edition

Topic

Medien & darstellende Kunst

Subtopic

Musik

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Composition
1 Dwelling in a field of sonic relationships: ‘instrument’ and ‘listening’ in an ecosystemic view of live electronics performance
2 (The) speaking of characters, musically speaking
3 Collaborating on composition: the role of the musical assistant at IRCAM, CCRMA and CSC
PART II Performance
4 Alvise Vidolin interviewed by Laura Zattra: the role of the computer music designers in composition and performance
5 Instrumentalists on solo works with live electronics: towards a contemporary form of chamber music?
6 Approaches to notation in music for piano and live electronics: the performer’s perspective
7 Encounterpoint: the ungainly instrument as co-performer
8 Robotic musicianship in live improvisation involving humans and machines
PART III Study
9 Authorship and performance tradition in the age of technology: (with examples from the performance history of works by Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen)
10 (Absent) authors, texts and technologies: ethnographic pathways and compositional practices
11 Computer-supported analysis of religious chant
12 Fixing the fugitive: a case study in spectral transcription of Luigi Nono’s A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum. A più cori for contrabass flute in G, contrabass clarinet in B flat and live electronics (1985)
13 A spectral examination of Luigi Nono’s A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum (1985)
14 Experiencing music as strong works or as games: the examination of learning processes in the production and reception of live electronic music
Bibliography
Index