Participation of IRCAM musicians and engineers: Curtis Abbott, Peter Eastty, Giuseppe di Giugno, Jean Kott, Jim Lawson, Tod Machover.
Presentation of the instrumental work, its composition and properties, intended to be developed, in sound and structure, by means of the computer.
Role of the computer
transform the sound of the instrument ;
extract information from the instrument to control various computer functions.
Description of the Machine 4 C (di Giugno)
its specific characteristics: how it works, and what it is capable of doing;
operates in real time and combines certain properties of the analog with those of the computer.
Concept of language (software)
musical objective: as clear, flexible and general as possible, these goals often being contradictory ;
technical objective: design of a data structure for a fast, efficient program. The main elements of a run-time program are "instruments", "scores" and "envelopes".
Music project and technology project.
The demands of the musical project present computer specialists with major difficulties, due to the flexibility and immediacy required: many new problems have arisen in the course of research. It seems extremely urgent to coordinate musical and scientific vocabularies from the outset, so that the two disciplines can exert a reciprocal influence on each other.
