Language(s): French

Keyword(s):

Sound Object ,  Micro-level Structure ,  Sound Shaping ,  Sound Source ,  Synthesis and Resynthesis Techniques ,  Analysis ,  Semantic Listening ,  Visual Representation ,  Listening Experience ,  Electroacoustic Music

Abstract:

This book is a large-scale analysis of De Natura Sonorum (1975) by Bernard Parmegiani in two parts. The first part contains a complete description of each movement: the source material, techniques and technologies used by the composer. A visual representation realised by the composer completes this part. In the second part, Jean-Jacques Nattiez applies his semiology theory to this electroacoustic work. He defines the poïetic, analyses Parmegiani’s manner of composition, and investigates the poïetic and semiology in music.

A glossary and catalogue of Parmegiani’s musical work complete the book.

Table of contents:

1. Chapter 1 (Jean-Christophe Thomas and Philippe Mion)
    Incidences-résonances
    Accidents harmoniques
    Géologie sonore
    Étude élastique
    Conjugaison du timbre
    Natures éphémères
    Matières induites
    Ondes croisées
    Pleins et déliés
    Points contre champs
    Others interviews
    Three-level thematic analysis
2. Chapter 2 (Jean-Jacques Nattiez)
    Poïetic problems in musical semiology: some reflexions about De Natura Sonorum by Bernard Parmegiani, Visual Representation

Abstract translation(s):

(français)

Mion, Philippe, Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, Thomas, Jean-Christophe (1982). L'envers d'une œuvre. De Natura Sonorum de Bernard Parmegiani