The Future of Mixed Works: the Issues
Thirty years after its creation, IRCAM counts around 600 works, a hundred of which have regularly been programmed during artistic seasons in France and abroad. This repertoire is the expression of the institute’s musical culture and implies a responsibility to ensure its longevity. But, overall, there is a quasi-original specificity, that of musical performance, that, while being inscribed in an ancient tradition, makes its preservation and evolution problematic. Knowing that technologies change quickly, and that publishers are poorly equipped culturally, technically, and economically to regularly make the necessary updates, what form of preservation should be adopted?
For us, the most stable way to publish and document a work is using an approach that describes the work technically, presenting its principles of running, without referencing a specific technology that existed at a given moment in time. This approach will be illustrated using two works by Pierre Boulez: Dialogue de l’ombre double and Anthèmes 2.
Art-Science Think Tank: Wednesday, June 12