Curtis Roads - Articulation of art: recent music of Horacio Vaggione

For the studio-based composer, the composition of music has evolved into an interactive process of directly sculpting sound morphologies on multiple time scales. A prime example is the electroacoustic music of Horacio Vaggione. This music's complexity and subtlety challenges mere textual description, posing formidable problems of discourse. My talk traces the aesthetic and technical path of his recent music.

Curtis Roads creates, teaches, and pursues research in the interdisciplinary territory spanning music and sound technology. He is Professor and Chair of Media Arts and Technology (MAT) and affiliate faculty in Music Composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he is also Associate Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE). He studied electronic music and computer music composition at California Institute of the Arts and the University of California, San Diego and received a Doctorate from the Université Paris 8. He was Editor and Associate Editor of Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) from 1978 to 2000, and cofounded the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) in 1979. His music set Flicker Tone Pulse (2019) was published on DVD by Wergo. His new book is The Computer Music Tutorial, Second Edition (MIT Press 2023).

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Florence Levé - Texture in symbolic computer music

Computer music analysis is generally based on aspects well studied in music education: melody, harmony, motives, rhythm... On the other hand, the musical texture and its relation to the score are often evoked in a more implicit and imprecise way.

The organization of voices and musical flows have however proven links with the perception of music: the textural dimension is an integral part of the analysis of scores, in particular for ensemble works (string quartets, orchestral music...). In this talk, we propose ways to define and formalize texture, convinced that taking it into account offers new perspectives for the analysis and co-creation of symbolic music.

Florence Levé is a professor of computer science at the MIS laboratory of the University of Picardie Jules Verne, and associated with CRIStAL where she collaborates with the Algomus team. Her research activities focus on computer music analysis, with a particular interest in structure analysis (fugues, sonata forms...) and the understanding of the organization of musical material in scores, both in their temporal dimension (recurrent motives, cadences...) and in their vertical dimension (voice separation, texture...). She is particularly involved in scientific mediation for schoolchildren and the general public (Faites de la science, MathC2+, En avant la MIZique!, ...).