Electroacoustic and computer technologies offer new means of expression to enrich musical language and extend the sonic possibilities of musical instruments. However, the ephemeral nature of digital devices and the constant acceleration of updates call into question some of the fundamentals of our musical tradition, which is largely based on one of the properties of musical notation: the transmission and permanence of a medium (paper). Traditional solfeggio does not allow the writing of musical forms using digital audio instruments.
If works using real-time computer technology are to live on, what measures must be taken to preserve the possibility of playing these works in future years? I will present practices and methods for transmitting and storing the digital content of interactive works, as well as the question of long-term preservation of digital repositories.
The musical works of our time require new processes of documentation and transmission, new media, new notations. Composers need to get involved in these issues, which are also questions of writing.
