{"id":6092,"date":"2011-12-01T06:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T11:22:03","slug":"iannis-xenakis-mycenes-alpha-grafische-klangsynthese-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kulturtechno.de\/?p=6092","title":{"rendered":"Iannis Xenakis, Myc\u00e8nes Alpha: Grafische Klangsynthese, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alle Welt arbeitet heute mit grafischen Mitteln zur digitalen Klangsynthese und -sequenzierung; meine Variante davon ist COIT<\/a>. Der Pionier hierf\u00fcr ist jedoch unumstritten Iannis Xenakis<\/a> mit seinem UPIC-System.<\/p>\n

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Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nUPIC is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis. It was developed at the Centre d’Etudes de Math\u00e9matique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu) in Paris, and was completed in 1977. The name is an acronym of Unit\u00e9 Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu. Xenakis used it on his subsequent piece Myc\u00e8nes Alpha (1978), and it has been used by composers such as Jean-Claude Risset (on Saxatile (1992)), Takehito Shimazu (Illusions in Desolate Fields (1994)), Aphex Twin, Mari King [1], and Curtis Roads.<\/p>\n

Physically, the UPIC is a digitising tablet linked to a computer, which has a vector display. Its functionality is similar to that of the later Fairlight CMI, in that the user draws waveforms and volume envelopes on the tablet, which are rendered by the computer. Once the waveforms have been stored, the user can compose with them by drawing „compositions“ on the tablet, with the X-axis representing time, and the Y-axis representing pitch. The compositions can be stretched in duration from a few seconds to an hour. They can also be transposed, reversed, inverted, and subject to a number of algorithmic transformations. The system allows for real time performance by moving the stylus across the tablet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tats\u00e4chlich w\u00fcnschte Xenakis, dass mithilfe eines solchen grafischen Notationsprogrammes auch Kinder und Laien Neue Musik schaffen k\u00f6nnen.<\/p>\n

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F\u00fcr das erste von Xenkais mit UPIC komponierte Werk, Myc\u00e8nes Alpha, hat jemand ein Video erstellt, bei dem man die Grafiken synchron zur Musik sieht. Thanx!<\/p>\n