DANTE TANZI

Information technology and communication of musical experience : categories, conflicts, et intersections.

Abstract

The majority of composers and scholars in the field of electroacoustic and computer music address their attention to the problem of achieving satisfactory relationships between new technological instrumentalities and the very sense of music making. Reflections concerning the relationships between the digital technologies and musical expression have assumed an increasingly important role, since they provide interpretative codes of composers' works and assume an explanatory function during the presentation of new musical pieces.

As computer music evolved, the pattern of relevant problems and methods that emerged can be seen as having developed in two main directions, with corresponding communicative trajectories. On the one hand there is the development of systems and languages for musical composition ; on the other hand the development of interdisciplinary research, aimed at the elaboration and integration of different knowledges.

This contribution intends to propose an analysis of some theoretical statements which regard the relationships between scientific innovations and the evolutionary tendencies of technologically based musics, focusing on the interaction between cognitive environments, emotive dimensions, and the ensuing communicative set-up.

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