Identity (Identities) and the Transmission of a Real-Time Musical Work
The mixed real-time musical work that associates musicians and computers involves an interaction that we would like to be at the same level as that of chamber musicians, is already obsolescent: machines and software are constantly renewed, compatibility was never truly assured. The necessity of preservation and its practical applications are above all controlled by the idea of performing the work again. Recording – the act of fixing a behavior that has the possibility of being multiple according to the qualities of the instrumental stimuli sent to the machines – is necessary but insufficient to reconstitute the machines used in the beginning.
Several complementary approaches will be presented: using the language Faust with mathematic formalism to describe the transformations carried out on the sound and create a paper documentation annexed to the partition without any technical implementation; the description of actions making it possible to perform the work again via databases or representations of this information; finally, the construction of musicological knowledge based on models of generation of sound in real-time.
Art-Science Think Tank: Friday, June 14