Animation notation, score distribution and AR-VR environments for spectral mimetic transfer in music composition

EasyChair Preprint no. 760

Abstract

This paper seeks to make a case for a compositional ideal (the mimetic transfer of a recorded or synthesized sound to the instrumental/vocal domain) which today’s technologies for animated/distributed musical notation have made more realistic than when it first appeared as a general aesthetic (with composers such as Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey, or, in the realm of computer music, Jean-Claude Risset), simultaneously with the birth of the digital era in the 1970s. The concept of mimesis is here examined both as a (post) spectral compositional technique and as a common feature of any form for musical score/representation. These theoretical considerations are then exemplified by musical examples and software demonstrations extract from the “In memoriam Jean-Claude Risset” cycle of compositions, all performed with the help of the SmartVox Score distribution system.

Keyphrases: AR VR, Distributed Notation, music notation, spectral music

@Booklet{EasyChair:760,
  author = {Jonathan Bell and Benedict Carey},
  title = {Animation notation, score distribution  and AR-VR environments for spectral mimetic transfer in music composition},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 760},
  doi = {10.29007/8w1w},
  year = {EasyChair, 2019}}