Language(s): French

Keyword(s):

Sound Object ,  Electroacoustic Instruments ,  Synthesis and Resynthesis Techniques ,  Gestural Interface ,  Real-time ,  Gesture ,  Socio-Cultural Aspects of Electroacoustic Music ,  Computer Music ,  Live Electronics ,  Mixed Work ,  Psychoacoustics ,  Semiotics

Abstract:

New technologies prompted a new type of musical creation and a new definition of the instrument concept. Through an historical and technical approach, the author analyses the various fields of technological creativity in the twentieth century: computer music, synthesis, gestural interfaces, psychoacoustics, musical research, new definitions of musical works, the role of composers and musicians in society and in the market economy.

Table of contents:

1. Evolution of new musical technologies
    Technological ruptures
    A mutation of the instrument
    Aesthetic revolutions
    The activity of composition
2. Conditions and properties of musical creation
    French musical research. Towards an interdisciplinarity
    Psychoacoustics as a new discipline for the studyof the musical object
    A musical object difficult to seize
3. Changed relations and mediations
    Statutes and the relations amongst the actors
    Communication between the artist and the public
    Mediation and the economic conditions of musical production

Abstract translation(s):

(français)

Heinrich, Marie-Noëlle (2003). Création musicale et technologies nouvelles