With today's electronic music technologies, we can create forms that emerge at the very moment they are heard, either from a probabilistic and indeterministic conception, or by taking interpretative criteria into account. How can the interpretation of a written score influence the very future of the music being created? How can we imagine forms that are born of a chain of probabilities and, while remaining recognizable, never reproduce themselves identically? One of the great musical challenges of our time is to combine formal thinking based on predetermined constructs, calling on memory, with an awareness of the present in its most singular and non-reproducible form. This is the basis of what I call "virtual scores".
The lecture and seminar will be followed by a concert in collaboration with IRCAM at 8 pm.
