Space and Spatialization as Discrete Parameter in Music Composition

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Musical material organization can be structured starting directly from space and spatiality, seen not as a metaphor but as acoustic entity, leading the research into the domain of room-mode analysis.
In spite of the large amount of theoretical achievements of Spectralism, the role of space in music and sound in 20th and 21st Century has been not deeply explored. As a matter of fact, the extreme difficulty to analyze and measure this element (as it was about at the beginnings of Spectralism) was surely an additional factor to make understand space as a merely sound decoration. Because nowadays this problem requires a deeper approach as well as a more consequent analysis (in strict connection with musical and artistic needs), it will be explained a possible path to integrate not only spatialization but also space (and some of its physical properties) into musical writing. Starting by examine the aesthetic reasons that have been the background for this research (excerpts from music scores as well as theoretical texts) we will identify those possibilities that both musical research and technology offer the composer to explore space and those influences that they could mean on musical language. This enquiry will consequently see how musical material organization can be structured starting directly from space and spatiality, seen not as a metaphor but as acoustic entity, a perspective that will lead the research into the domain of room acoustics and in particular to the resonance modes. Finally, this study will show in which way space, an essential element for the music of our time, can be considered from an inner point of view (that is as a fundamental musical parameter), instead than in its merely topological or architectural nature, providing some musical examples taken from the project Ius Lucis (realized at I.R.C.A.M. in 2006/2007).

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Valerio Sannicandro
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Komposition Valerio Sannicandro Ius Lucis IRCAM Technische Universität Berlin Edgard Varèse Karlheinz Stockhausen Emmanuel Nunes Raumakustik Alvin Lucier

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