14/15/16.12.2012
seminar: NON-STANDARD SOUND SYNTHESIS: TECHNIQUES AESTHETICS,
EXTENSIONS
led by Luc Döbereiner [ http://doebereiner.org ]
In the 1970s, composers such as Gottfried Michael Koenig, Herbert Brün,
and Iannis Xenakis independently developed sound synthesis methods,
which were not derived from acoustic, harmonic, or mathematical theories
but from compositional principles. These composers sought radical new
ways of describing sound, the composition of sound instead of with
sound, and strove for extending compositional control to the lowest
possible level. By treating the digital sample (instantaneous sound
pressure level) as an elementary material for musical composition and by
composing sonic micro-fluctuations with stochastic means, they laid the
foundations of microsound and blurred the distinction of sound and
music. These systems and aesthetic position still constitute a challenge
today. On a technological level, the difficulties involved in
implementing many of the non-standard synthesis methods disclose
implicit limitations and presuppositions of today’s computer music
systems. On a conceptual level, they challenge the inherently
positivistic attitudes present in much contemporary research on sound
synthesis.
This seminar will explore the history of non-standard synthesis, the
developer’s aesthetico-political positions, as well as possibilities of
implementing non-standard synthesis methods in SuperCollider. Moreover
we will present contemporary extensions of non-standard synthesis and
will try to provide the participants with the possibilities to continue
to experiment practically.
Dates:
Friday 14.12.2012, 18:00-22.00h
Saturday 15.12.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Sunday 16.12.2012, 11:00–14:00h, 16:00-19:00h
Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació. Sant Adrià, 20. Barcelona. Metro
Sant Andreu.
+info & inscriptions:
[
http://lullcec.org/2012/workshops/sintesi-no-estandard-tecniques-estetiques-extensions/
]
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upcoming:
12.12.2012, 20:00h Non-standard Synthesis: History, Techniques, and
Composition
Lecture by Luc Döbereiner
22.12.2012, 19:00h PROOF OF CONCEPT #01:
EVOL, Mark Fell, Lee Gamble, Yutaka Makino
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