From "Music V" to "Creative Gestures in computer music"

Daniel Arfib
Loïc Kessous

CNRS-LMA
31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier
13402 Marseille Cedex 09 - France

Abstract:

Music V is one of the first programs dedicated to sound creation. During the seventies, computers were rather slow, and the possibility of performing real time sound synthesis on the computers available at that time was only a dream. However, many concepts were already being developed based on concepts such as curves, musical intention, mapping, and data reduction, which the latest computers are now able to cope with.

Thanks to the latest developments in computer music software and hardware, it is now possible to recreate these sounds in real time and to interpret them. The idea of interpreting computer music (including sounds stored in archives, where appropriate) via gestural control devices gives rise in this article to some reflections on the meaning of "interpretation".