INCIDENCE DES REPRÉSENTATIONS NUMÉRIQUES SUR L’ÉVOLUTION DU LANGAGE MUSICAL EN FRANCE ET AUX ÉTATS - UNIS
Luc Rondeleux · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 1995
Interdependants in their evolution, musical expression and scientific and technical knowledge have, under the influence of digital representations, been subjected to irreversible mutations. The passage from analog to digital was instrumental to the elaboration of formal structures and to the study of cognitive and subconscious phenomena. If computer-aided composition has directed its field of study towards statistical methods, by the use of the theory of information and of the structuralist data of linguistics and semantics, digital synthesis has attempted to elucidate the subjective fundamentals of perception. The reconciliation of these compositional tendencies was brought when the formalisms integrated the esthetic functionnalities of the immanent spatial and temporal nature of sound. The increase of technological potentials and the normalisation of the midi communication protocol have permitted the instauration within the creation processes of forms of logic that are true to life. Emotion and sensibility go beyond understanding and forge the social reception, both perpetually renewed and combined to the revelations about the universe. Digital representation has produced a new frame for projective compositional strategies, impacting upon the musical environment of the end of our century. Mots-cles : cognition - linguistique - meteriau - modele - psycho-acoustique - semantique - sociobiologie.