20. An Approach to the Epistemic Potential of the UPIC
Mauricio Meza · Open Book Publishers · 2024
The UPIC provides access to a musical creative process based on the creation of synthesized sounds through drawing, giving rise to an analogical graphic register, on the one hand, and on the other, a symbolic digital register. The relationship between these graphic and digital registers, as well as the interactive context of their production, are of particular interest for my research, which aims to make an object of study out of the digital trace of the creative process phenomenon. In this chapter, I will, from a traceological perspective, a comparative analysis of two excerpts of the graphic registers of the creation processes of eua'on, by Julio Estrada, and of Mycènes-Alpha, by Iannis Xenakis. An analysis of the traces of use of the UPIC can be conducive to the emergence of knowledge about the process of musical creation.