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Abstract There is no end to the gesture of creating, and yet we have to finish. To declare that here, at this moment, is to end. What's finished  ? How do you recognize the final point  ? How do you stop in time  ? What bursts forth at the moment of …

Abstract The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was the first modern warfare of the twentieth century. Japan won the war against Russia which had the largest land army in the world at the time. In this lecture, we focus on the personal war diaries of Japanese …

Abstract Knowing that ending is only an illusion, how can we think of the final point  ? Nothing ends, but is abandoned. So how do we accept abandonment, how do we allow the end to emerge, and the mourning that goes with it  ? How do you submit to the …

Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles …

Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by …

Abstract Pierre Boulez has written and spoken surprisingly little about composers active in the second half of the twentieth century. A prolific author and passionate commentator on composers such as Webern, Schoenberg and Debussy, whom he integrated into …

Abstract In 1986, Pierre Boulez signed a contract to donate his musical manuscripts to the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher, a friend of many years. The collection was the cornerstone of the musical holdings that have since been preserved and …

Abstract Pierre Boulez has a unique relationship with archives and libraries. The composer, who wanted to "burn libraries" and made them the site of the tension between memory and creation, was himself interested in the archives of others, and took care …

Abstract In the second lecture of the year, we attempted to sketch a portrait of Zimri-Lim. Along the way, we added a number of new features. We will complete this picture, for the most part with elements we have not yet encountered. We'll see how the …

Lecture outline : aczel's translation of set theory into type theory   ; miquel's variation for not necessarily well-founded sets   ; application to the problem of the logical strength of certain type systems, in particular the Lean system (Mario …

Abstract A landmark work, Pierre Boulez's Répons (1980-82) was written to showcase the technological potential of IRCAM, the Parisian Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music that Boulez founded in 1977. This piece, like many others, was …

Abstract The main part of Boulez's last lecture at the Collège de France - "L'œuvre: tout ou fragment" (The work: whole or fragment) - deals with the different types of relationship that the fragment and the whole can have within the work , depending on …

Program Presentation by Nicolas Donin and Jonathan Goldman Pierre BOULEZ Dérive   1 , for six   instruments (the work will be performed twice) Répons , for six   soloists, ensemble and electronics (excerpt) Tristan MURAIL La Barque mystique , for five   …