La musique de Charlemagne Palestine semble transcender les approches musicales américaines comme européennes des vingtième et vingt-et-unième siècles. Si sa pratique de la musique drone prend ses racines dans ses années passées enfant à chanter des lamentations dans les synagogues en tant que choriste, puis jeune adulte dans son expérience de carillonneur à l'église Saint-Thomas de Manhattan, et plus tard dans les approches expérimentales post-cagiennes et son étude vocale de la musique hindoustanie, son oeuvre, qui à de nombreux égards évoque également certaines esthétiques musicales de l'avant-garde européenne, oscille entre musique, installation et performance. C'est au travers de l'étude de la pièce "Schlingen-Blängen" pour orgue, sous le prisme de l'heuristique musicale, que cette thèse tente d'appréhender la quête du "son d'or" du musicien contemporain new-yorkais d'origine, bruxellois d'adoption. / The music of Charlemagne Palestine seems to transcend both american and european musical mouvements of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. His approach of drone music finds its origins in his early years when he would participate in synanogue choirs, singing lamentations, as well as in his young adult years when he would work as a bell ringer in the church of Saint-Thomas in Manhattan. Later on, his experimental post-Cage music approach and his vocal studies of Hindustani music, all gave birth to a body of work that oscillates between music, installation and performance, not without recalling in various ways certain european avant-garde musical esthetics. The present doctoral thesis aims to study the piece "Schlingen-Blängen" for organ, via a musical heuristics approach, in order to apprehend the pursuit of the "golden sound" in the oeuvre of the New-York contemporary artist, based in Brussels.

Sonic Activation is a multimedia performance-installation featuring sound sculptures, video projections, and performance with live electronics for solo and mixed ensembles. The work aims to unpack the nature in which we hear and interact with sound, space, and gesture. It is a project that recontextualizes the typical practice of performance and installation modes of music and art. The event uses 12 loudspeakers spaced around a gallery to create a densely layered sonic atmosphere that gently fluctuates and slowly evolves. Throughout the event, the audience is encouraged to freely navigate the gallery and experience the subtle changes in sound as they manifest in the space.

[EN] The PhD thesis "INCIPIT: The search for a multidisciplinary language at the crossroads of Antiquity and Contemporaneity" focusses on the influence of the methodology of Historically Informed Performance practice on the creation of a Contemporary Music Theatre performance. The framework and creative basis for their connection is the Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). In music theatre it is not only about music as one of the scenic elements; musical thinking structures the entire theatrical process. It is a genre-between-genre, where various art disciplines interact. Historically Informed Performance practice is a characteristic musical approach of the Early Music movement. It includes study of historical documents and objects in order to obtain a more profound understanding of the music and a performance practice which is based upon this comprehension. In our thesis, Historically Informed Performance practice has been connected with Contemporary Music Theatre through a mise-en-scene of Dante's Commedia, principally based upon its sonorous non-musical and musical references. Also references of movement, gesture, colour and light were taken into account for the mise-en-scene, but always in relation to the sonorous references. In this way, the mise-en-scene is a sonorous journey through Dante's Afterworld as he might have imagined it, but also a contemporary visual and dramatical journey. This research has been done through artistic practice: the creation and performance of a contemporary music theatre work called Incipit. It is based upon thorough knowledge of the Commedia and, through its methodology of Historically Informed Performance Practice, it has mostly made used of 14th century musical sources. An audio file was created as a sonorous element for Incipit, based on previously existing sounds and recording of songs and texts.The performance was recorded in video format. The research question was: How do the work methods taken from Historically Informed Performance practice contribute to the creation of a contemporary music theatre performance in a mise-en-scene of the Divina Commedia? For this practice-based research not only historical-musical knowledge was necessary but also literary knowledge of Dante's Commedia and its underlying meanings. Theoretical knowledge thus was an important basis for the practice. However, the practice itself also provided information for the theory. For the composition of three-voice "simple polyphony" according to the rules for polyphonic improvisation around 1300, theoretical knowledge was essential, but their practice led to historical-musical insights of its performance and its rules for intervallic and rhythmic matters. The practice provided a new perspective on Dante's narrative from a sonorous point of view. Finally, the practice combined two disciplines, Early Music and Contemporary Music Theatre, which are not commonly combined, and it provides us new theoretical insights of creative processes and musical-theatrical languages. / [ES] La tesis doctoral "INCIPIT: La búsqueda de un lenguaje multidisciplinario en el punto de encuentro entre la antigüedad y contemporaneidad" trata sobre la influencia de la metodología de la práctica de interpretación históricamente informada en la creación de una puesta en escena de Teatro Musical Contemporáneo. El marco y la base creativa para su combinación es la Divina Comedia de Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321). El teatro musical no se centra solamente en la música como uno de los elementos escénicos; el pensamiento musical estructura todo el proceso teatral. Es un género-entre-géneros donde interactúan varias disciplinas artísticas. La interpretación históricamente informada es una manera de abordar la música que caracterizan los intérpretes especializados en la Música Antigua. Incluye el estudio de documentos y objetos históricos con el fin de llegar a una comprensión más profunda de la música antigua y una práctica interpretativa que se basa en este entendimiento. En esta tesis, se ha relacionado la interpretación históricamente informada con el teatro musical contemporáneo a través de una puesta en escena de la Comedia de Dante basada principalmente en sus referencias sonoras, tanto musicales como no musicales. Además se tomaron en cuenta las referencias de movimiento, gesto, color y luz para la puesta en escena pero siempre en relación con las referencias sonoras. De esta forma, la puesta en escena se ha convertido en un viaje sonoro a través del Más Allá de Dante como él mismo podría haberlo imaginado, pero también siendo un viaje visualmente y dramáticamente de carácter contemporáneo. Esta investigación se ha realizado a través de la práctica artística: la creación e interpretación de una obra de teatro musical contemporáneo llamada Incipit. Se basa en un conocimiento profundo de la Comedia y, a través de la metodología de la práctica interpretativa históricamente informada, se ha hecho principalmente uso de fuentes musicales del siglo XIV. Un archivo de audio fue creado como elemento sonoro para Incipit, compuesto de sonidos previamente existentes y la grabación de cantos y textos. La actuación fue grabada en formato de vídeo. La pregunta de investigación fue: ¿Cómo contribuyen los métodos de trabajo tomados de la práctica interpretativa históricamente informada a la creación de una actuación de teatro musical contemporáneo en una puesta en escena de la Divina Comedia? Para esta investigación basada en la práctica, no sólo fue necesario el conocimiento histórico-musical, sino también el conocimiento literario de la Comedia de Dante y sus significados subyacentes. Por lo tanto el conocimiento teórico ha constituido una base importante para la práctica. Sin embargo, la práctica en sí también proporciona información para la teoría. En cuanto a la composición de "polifonía sencilla" a tres voces, de acuerdo con las reglas para la improvisación polifónica de principios del siglo XIV, ha sido esencial recurrir a un gran conocimiento teórico, pero su práctica interpretativa dio lugar a ideas histórico-musicales de su interpretación y sus normas acerca de cuestiones de intervalos y ritmos musicales. La práctica proporciona, desde un punto de vista sonoro, una nueva perspectiva de la narrativa de Dante. Por último, la interpretación junta dos disciplinas que no han sido combinadas frecuentemente: la Música Antigua y el Teatro Musical Contemporáneo, proporcionándonos nuevos conocimientos teóricos de los procesos creativos y los lenguajes musical-teatrales. / [CA] La tesi doctoral "INCIPIT: La recerca d'un llenguatge multidisciplinari en el punt de trobada entre l'antiguitat i contemporaneïtat" tracta sobre la influència de la metodologia de la pràctica d'interpretació històricament informada en la creació d'una posada en escena de Teatre Musical Contemporani. El marc i la base creativa per la seua combinació és la Divina Comèdia de Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). El teatre musical no se centra només en la música com un dels elements escènics; el pensament musical estructura tot el procés teatral. És un gènere-entre-gèneres on interactuen diverses disciplines artístiques. La interpretació històricament informada és una manera d'abordar la música que caracteritzen els intèrprets especialitzats en la Música Antiga. Inclou l'estudi de documents i objectes històrics per tal d'arribar a una comprensió més profunda de la música antiga i una pràctica interpretativa que es basa en aquest endement. En aquesta tesi, s'ha relacionat la interpretació històricament informada amb el teatre musical contemporani a través d'una posada en escena de la Comèdia de Dante basada principalment en les seues referències sonores, tant musicals com no musicals. A més es van prendre en compte les referències de moviment, gest, color i llum per a la posada en escena però sempre en relació amb les referències sonores. D'aquesta manera, la posada en escena s'ha convertit en un viatge sonor a través del Més Enllà de Dante com ell mateix podria haver-ho imaginat, però també sent un viatge visualment i dramàticament de caràcter contemporani. Aquesta investigació s'ha realitzat a través de la pràctica artística: la creació i interpretació d'una obra de teatre musical contemporani anomenada Incipit. Es basa en un coneixement profund de la Comèdia i, a través de la metodologia de la pràctica interpretativa històricament informada, s'ha fet principalment ús de fonts musicals del segle XIV. Un arxiu d'àudio va ser creat com a element sonor per a Incipit, compost de sons prèviament existents i de la gravació de cants i textos. L'actuació va ser gravada en format de vídeo. La pregunta d'investigació va ser: Com contribueixen els mètodes de treball presos de la pràctica interpretativa històricament informada a la creació d'una actuació de teatre musical contemporani en una posada en escena de la Divina Comèdia? Per a aquesta investigació basada en la pràctica, no només va ser necessari el coneixement històric-musical, sinó també el coneixement literari de la Comèdia de Dante i els seus significats subjacents. Per tant el coneixement teòric ha constituït una base important per a la pràctica. No obstant això, la pràctica en si també proporciona informació per a la teoria. Pel que fa a la composició de "polifonia senzilla" a tres veus, d'acord amb les regles per a la improvisació polifònica de principis del segle XIV, ha sigut essencial recórrer a un gran coneixement teòric, però la seua pràctica interpretativa va donar lloc a idees historicomusicals de la seua interpretació i les seues normes sobre qüestions d'intervals i ritmes musicals. La pràctica proporciona, des d'un punt de vista sonor, una nova perspectiva de la narrativa de Dante. Finalment, la interpretació junta dues disciplines que no han estat combinades freqüentment: la Música Antiga i el Teatre Musical Contemporani, proporcionant-nos nous coneixements teòrics dels processos creatius i els llenguatges musical-teatrals. / Sprenkeling, L. (2016). INCIPIT: The search for a multidisciplinary language at the crossroads of Antiquity and Contemporaneity [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/62682

Cette thèse porte sur le concept d’objet sonore, élaboré par le fondateur du mouvement esthétique nommé « musique concrète » : Pierre Schaeffer, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages consacrés à la perception du son dans une perspective musicale. A travers la généalogie de ce concept devenu très populaire en musique contemporaine, nous cherchons d’abord à montrer comment se construit une pensée esthétique originale par l’apport de modèles théoriques variés : sciences naturelles, linguistique, et surtout philosophie de la perception contemporaine – phénoménologie, structuralisme et théorie de la forme. Le concept d’objet sonore se construit en effet aussi bien par des gestes techniques – enregistrement et manipulation du son fixé, situation acousmatique – que par des gestes intellectuels radicaux – suspension de la référence au contexte d’émission du son, refus de la perspective de la physique acoustique, donc de l’explication du phénomène sonore au profit de sa description morphologique, étude généralisée de nos fonctions d’écoute (acoulogie). Cette appréhension du son « pour lui-même », qui se pense comme une application de l’épochè phénoménologique à l’écoute (écoute réduite) nous invite à penser les rapports ambigus pouvant se tisser entre une esthétique musicale particulière et la philosophie de la perception qu’elle convoque pour penser son objet. Plus généralement, ce travail vise donc à décrire le rôle d’une certaine philosophie de la perception dans l’émergence d’une appréhension plastique du phénomène sonore, phénomène qui résiste pourtant d’emblée à l’objectivation. / This doctoral dissertation focuses on the concept of sound object, coined by the founder of the “musique concrète” aesthetic movement Pierre Schaeffer – who wrote several essays dedicated to the perception of sound within a musical perspective. In studying the genealogy of this concept which has become very popular in contemporary music, we first wish to show how the reunion of varied theoretical models helps to build an original aesthetic reflection – natural science, linguistics, and above all the philosophy of contemporary perception (phenomenology, structuralism and Gestalt theory). Indeed, the concept of sound object is the result of both technical gestures – recording and manipulation of the recorded sound, acousmatic situation – and intellectual and radical moves such as the absence of reference to the context of sound production, the refusal to use the theoretical frame of acoustic physics (thus enabling the morphological description of the sound phenomenon to take precedence over the explanation of such phenomenon), the general study of our listening functions (acoulogy). Such perception of the sound “for itself” is to be viewed as the application of the phenomenological epoché to the listening activity (reduced listening), and leads us to consider the ambiguous relationships between a particular musical aesthetics and the philosophy of perception required to analyse its object. More generally, our study thus intends to describe the role played by a certain philosophy of perception in the appearance of a plastic perception of the sound phenomenon, though such phenomenon initially resists objectification.

Depuis les premières expériences de John Cage et de Pierre Schaeffer jusqu’aux hybridations bruitistes de la noise, les musiques expérimentales ont suivi une reconfiguration de leurs pratiques au contact d’une évolution technologique constante. Cette thèse propose de présenter ces musiques dans leur constitution en tant que scène artistique à l’ère du régime numérique à travers une démarche historique, esthétique et sociologique.Cette recherche sera mise en perspective par une monographie du GRIM (Groupe de Recherche et d’Improvisation Musicales), un lieu marseillais dédié aux musiques expérimentales et improvisées.Par l’étude de cette scène territoriale emblématique de la multitude des pratiques chez les artistes et les publics, nous présenterons les différentes interactions qui alimentent ce contexte créatif émergent. C’est en cela qu’il convient également d’étudier à la fois l’incertitude des carrières chez les musiciens professionnels et l’expertise des amateurs de ces musiques. De plus, cette scène artistique se retrouve dans une économie en mutation face aux innovations technologiques d’un côté et aux enjeux institutionnels de l’autre.Dans ce contexte pluriel, nous proposons de définir les codes et conventions régissant les musiques expérimentales pour caractériser cette scène spécifique au sein des mondes de l’art. / Since the first experiments by John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer up to the loud hybridations of noise music, experimental music has followed a reconfiguration of its practices in contact with a constant technological evolution.This thesis aims to present experimental music as a singular and radical scene in the digital era through a historic, aesthetic and sociological procedure.This research is seen through the context of the GRIM, a venue located in Marseilles dedicated to experimental and impovised music.Through the study of this local scene, emblematic of practices by artists and audiences, we will present the different interactions that feed this emancipatory and emergent creative context. This will lead us to assess incertitudes in professional musicians’ careers and the expertise of amateurs of this music scene.Furthermore, faced with technological innovations on one hand and institutional issues on the other, this artistic scene finds itself in a changing economy.In this pluralistic context, we shall define the codes and conventions that rule experimental music to model the characteristics of this specific scene inside the art worlds.

O presente trabalho propõe uma análise e reflexão sobre a produção de música eletrônica experimental mediada por dispositivos móveis. O termo Música Móvel é usado frequentemente desde de meados dos anos 2000, devido ao grupo de pesquisadores de instituições inglesas ligados aos Mobile Music Workshops, que ocorreram entre 2004 e 2008. As pesquisas acadêmicas e artísticas apresentadas nesse evento envolviam obras e aplicações mediadas por diversos tipos de dispositivos, cujo foco principal seria explorar a mobilidade de interfaces eletrônicas em situações interativas no espaço urbano. Após o lançamento de dispositivos móveis corporativos, como smartphones e tablets, no final da década passada a perspectiva das pesquisas acadêmicas mudou bastante: passou a privilegiar os objetos de consumo, ao invés de situações. Esse câmbio de foco acarreta em alterações significativas entre consumo e produção de cultural. Pois essas interfaces seguem um modelo de consumo assimétrico entre possibilidades de produção e aquisição. Os dispositivos corporativos são primordialmente plataformas de Consumo Controlado, baseadas na lógica de monopólio de mercado, vigilância, obsolescência programada e, portanto, causam reorganizações significativas em nosso dia a dia (STRIPHAS,2011). Portanto, nesse texto especulamos sobre outras alternativas para as práticas de Música Móvel. Uma Música Móvel Crítica, que não depende exclusivamente dos monopólios empresariais para sua produção e veiculação. Para isso propomos uma reflexão sobre fidelidade sonora que acarreta em uma defesa dos sons e dispositivos precários - o proletariado da reprodução sonora - aqueles que compõem a paisagem sonora eletrônica de baixa fidelidade do cotidiano. / This research aims to propose an analysis and reflection on the production of experimental electronic music mediated by mobile devices. The term Mobile Music is frequently used since the mid-2000s, due to a group of researchers of English institutions connected to the Mobile Music Workshop, which took place between 2004 and 2008. The academic and artistic research presented at this event involved works and applications mediated by various types of devices, among the experiences the main focus was to explore the mobility of electronic interfaces in interactive situations in urban space. After the release of corporate mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets at the end of the last decade the perspective of academic research has changed a lot: it started chater objects of consumption rather than situations. This change of focus brings in significant changes between consumption and cultural production. Because these interfaces follow a asymmetric model of consumption between possibilities production and procurement. Corporate devices are primarily controlled consumption platforms, which are based on market monopoly, surveillance, planned obsolescence, and therefore cause significant reorganizations in our daily lives (STRIPHAS, 2011).Thus in this text we speculate about other alternatives to the practices of Mobile Music. A Critical Mobile Music, which does not depend solely on corporate monopolies for its production and propagation. Therefore we propose a reflection on issues of sound fidelity, in order to make that we propose a defense of precarious sounds and devices - the proletariat of sound reproduction - those that make the electronic low fidelity soundscape of everyday life.

O presente trabalho propõe uma análise e reflexão sobre a produção de música eletrônica experimental mediada por dispositivos móveis. O termo Música Móvel é usado frequentemente desde de meados dos anos 2000, devido ao grupo de pesquisadores de instituições inglesas ligados aos Mobile Music Workshops, que ocorreram entre 2004 e 2008. As pesquisas acadêmicas e artísticas apresentadas nesse evento envolviam obras e aplicações mediadas por diversos tipos de dispositivos, cujo foco principal seria explorar a mobilidade de interfaces eletrônicas em situações interativas no espaço urbano. Após o lançamento de dispositivos móveis corporativos, como smartphones e tablets, no final da década passada a perspectiva das pesquisas acadêmicas mudou bastante: passou a privilegiar os objetos de consumo, ao invés de situações. Esse câmbio de foco acarreta em alterações significativas entre consumo e produção de cultural. Pois essas interfaces seguem um modelo de consumo assimétrico entre possibilidades de produção e aquisição. Os dispositivos corporativos são primordialmente plataformas de Consumo Controlado, baseadas na lógica de monopólio de mercado, vigilância, obsolescência programada e, portanto, causam reorganizações significativas em nosso dia a dia (STRIPHAS,2011). Portanto, nesse texto especulamos sobre outras alternativas para as práticas de Música Móvel. Uma Música Móvel Crítica, que não depende exclusivamente dos monopólios empresariais para sua produção e veiculação. Para isso propomos uma reflexão sobre fidelidade sonora que acarreta em uma defesa dos sons e dispositivos precários - o proletariado da reprodução sonora - aqueles que compõem a paisagem sonora eletrônica de baixa fidelidade do cotidiano. / This research aims to propose an analysis and reflection on the production of experimental electronic music mediated by mobile devices. The term Mobile Music is frequently used since the mid-2000s, due to a group of researchers of English institutions connected to the Mobile Music Workshop, which took place between 2004 and 2008. The academic and artistic research presented at this event involved works and applications mediated by various types of devices, among the experiences the main focus was to explore the mobility of electronic interfaces in interactive situations in urban space. After the release of corporate mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets at the end of the last decade the perspective of academic research has changed a lot: it started chater objects of consumption rather than situations. This change of focus brings in significant changes between consumption and cultural production. Because these interfaces follow a asymmetric model of consumption between possibilities production and procurement. Corporate devices are primarily controlled consumption platforms, which are based on market monopoly, surveillance, planned obsolescence, and therefore cause significant reorganizations in our daily lives (STRIPHAS, 2011).Thus in this text we speculate about other alternatives to the practices of Mobile Music. A Critical Mobile Music, which does not depend solely on corporate monopolies for its production and propagation. Therefore we propose a reflection on issues of sound fidelity, in order to make that we propose a defense of precarious sounds and devices - the proletariat of sound reproduction - those that make the electronic low fidelity soundscape of everyday life.

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Founded in 1967, the Amsterdam-based improvising collective the Instant Composers Pool is one of the longest consistently performing groups in improvised music. This thesis forms an ethnography and musicological study of the ICP Orchestra, which originated when the "pool" developed a more coherent line-up around 1980. With a background in experimental music as well as free jazz, their performance practice differs in many respects from the practices of American forms of jazz. Whereas most accounts of improvisation emphasise orality and creative interaction in opposition to the performance of composed music, 'instant composition' defines improvisation precisely in terms of compositional thinking. Moreover, founding member and orchestra leader Misha Mengelberg composed a very diverse repertoire for the group which draws on styles from Duke Ellington to John Cage and uses various forms of compositional and notational techniques to explore the different improvisatory possibilities that they afford, thus blurring the distinction between improvisation and composition both in name and in practice. Apart from a detailed historical and ethnographic description of a group that is central to a genre that has been underrepresented in music-historical research, this thesis investigates the repertoire of the ICP and its use as an opportunity to reconsider the relation between musical text and performance. Drawing on my observations and interviews with the musicians, and connecting these to theories of material culture and science and technology studies, it develops a concept of compositions as animated and animating objects in performance, tools and materials that participate in the creative interactive process of improvised performance rather than textual representations of 'the music itself'. I substantiate this theory with detailed descriptions of ICP performances recorded during fieldwork. This contributes to a rethinking of musical notation and simultaneously brings new insights into improvisation as a creative practice.

This Bachelor Thesis in composition explores an alternative compositional process for creating improvised music through the approach of sound design. The questions addressed in the thesis are concerned with how the soundscape can be controlled by the composer while still maintaining the expressivity of an improvised performance. Thus, the composer’s role as both sound designer, producer and performer is investigated using live electronics and score design. The theoretical framework for the thesis is to be found in the intersection between Anglo-American experimental music, electronic music, sound design and electroacoustic improvisation. Key influences include indeterminacy as expressed in the music of John Cage, Deep Listening practices pioneered by Pauline Oliveros as well as the aesthetical paradigms of electronic and electroacoustic music. The artistic methods revolved around the following steps: studio workshops with musicians (Fredrik Ekenvi and José Louis Relova Gallego) exploring timbres, playing techniques and music technology in real-time followed by associative discussions about the soundscapes created; composing audio and graphical drafts influenced by the workshops; designing diagrams for the electronics and compiling these to a design document; workshopping and performing the final piece (Towards the Event Horizon). Towards the Event Horizon (for bass clarinet, electric guitar and live electronics) is the final result of the work, comprising a score with accompanying design document as well as a recording of the original performance at Studio Acusticum in Piteå 20th of March 2021. The artefacts and associated documentation are presented in their entirety on the dedicated Research Catalogue exposition. Conclusions include how composition and sound design are tied together and cannot be considered as isolated processes, especially in the context of live electronics; the interrelationship between the improviser, the acoustic soundscape and the artistic associations that inform the improvisation; the importance of form as the defining element of a composition and lastly; how a score for improvised music can be devised in the shape of a blueprint of form and texture, setting certain technical, sonic and gestural conditions while leaving the performer to play freely within this frame. / <p>Konstnärliga artefakter presenteras via Research Catalogue: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1250652/1250651</p>