1st Edition
Live Electronic Music Composition, Performance, Study
Introduction
Friedemann Sallis, Valentina Bertolani, Jan Burle and Laura Zattra
Part I: Composition
1. Dwelling in a field of sonic relationships: ‘instrument’ and ‘listening’ in an ecosystemic view of live electronics performance
Agostino Di Scipio
2. (The) speaking of characters, musically speaking
Chris Chafe
3. Collaborating on composition: the role of the musical assistant at IRCAM, CCRMA and CSC
Laura Zattra
Part II: Performance
4. Alvise Vidolin interviewed by Laura Zattra: the role of the computer music designers in composition and performance
Laura Zattra
5. Instrumentalists on solo works with live electronics: towards a contemporary form of chamber music?
François-Xavier Féron and Guillaume Boutard
6. Approaches to notation in music for piano and live electronics: the performer’s perspective
Xenia Pestova
7. Encounterpoint: the ungainly instrument as co-performer
John Granzow
8. Robotic musicianship in live improvisation involving humans and machines
George Tzanetakis
Part III: Study
9. Authorship and performance tradition in the age of technology: (with examples from the performance history of works by Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Angela Ida De Benedictis
10. (Absent) authors, texts and technologies: ethnographic pathways and compositional practices
Nicola Scaldaferri
11. Computer-supported analysis of religious chant
Dániel Péter Biró and George Tzanetakis
12. Fixing the fu
Biography
Friedemann Sallis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Music Department at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Valentina Bertolani is currently pursuing a PhD in musicology at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Jan Burle is a scientist at Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Outstation at MLZ in Garching, Germany.
Laura Zattra is a research fellow at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France.
