Title: Signification in computer-generated classical music
Abstract:Abstract In the research project of the group to which the author belongs, a computer program, on the basis of given rules, produces music that seems to institute a process of signification. In the pr...Abstract In the research project of the group to which the author belongs, a computer program, on the basis of given rules, produces music that seems to institute a process of signification. In the present paper we address the following question: what kind of communication can be activated by a programme of automatic elaboration which mechanically applies, with random choices, rules of composition? After an analysis of the theoretical foundation of the process of musical communication, the hypothesis is put forward that the rules of a musical culture have absorbed a part of the collective representation of the universe common to the members of that culture. The programme gives life to a communication whose first term (the transmitter) is the entire community which has created that particular musical language in which it has inserted its own fundamental expressive objectives. Keywords:Read More
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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