Sunday, November 30, 2008

Music as change, technology, interactive music, emotions, timbre

Music is somehow a crisis. Music is change. That would please John Cage. Music is fluctuating between body and soul, between physical, physiological and perceptual ways of perceiving what is going on. Music lies in a mysterious surface, just between pitch and frequency. I'm giving an example. There are so many aspects of music that you can never say everything about it. The Master in Music, Mind and Technology that I would love to join will help me to organize my ideas so that I will be able to say a few things more.
What can technology give to music? What can music teach to a technological life? For example, Anthony Prechtl is developing interactive music that could just fit in video games. He's also thinking about the relationship between music and emotions. Can we learn something more about those emotional peaks that music give to us? How can technology help us?
My area of interest, as I wrote it several times, is timbre. Timbral scales and timbral spaces. There's something really exciting going on there.

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