Olivier Pasquet - Public Lecture (In English)

Synthetic times:

Scores for electronic music do not have the same necessity as those for music interpreted by instruments, whether traditional or not. There is no pragmatic necessity for such scores apart from being tangible and recognised objects of music.

In this genre, the distinction between prescriptive and descriptive scores is blurred, and the order of execution is often scrambled. This is particularly evident in generative music, where represented times are themselves representations. Determinism and correlations are apprehended, and read, from completely different perspectives and dimensions. Especially when there is no apparent musician at the time of performance or strong indeterminacy. This even has social consequences for how and where one listens to music. 

These circumstances create enough interesting uncertainties to inspire risky artistic explorations. We have witnessed many graphic scores, sonograms, and other concepts transferring from sound to graphics, and vice versa. We have also observed numerous interdisciplinary works,…