Digital Interactivity: A New Impetus for Musical Composition?

Цель данной статьи - рассмотреть, как особенности нарастающей технической среды могут спровоцировать сдвиг ориентиров в современном композиторском мышлении. Автор соотносит традиционное музыковедение с другими научными сферами, делая акцент на некоторых философско-антропологических тезисах о «диалоге» человека с собственными изобретениями. Объектом исследования послужила совместная работа специалиста в сфере музыкальной информатики Кристофа Лебретона и исполнителя на ударных инструментах Жана Жоффруа над проектами двух авторов: Тьерри Де Мея и Винсента Рафаэля Каринолы. Таким образом, две последние части статьи посвящены ключевым феноменам, относящимся к сочинительскому процессу анализируемых произведений: интерактивность и работа с жестом с помощью цифровых инструментов. The purpose of this article is to consider how the peculiarities of the growing technical environment can provoke any movement in modern composer thinking. The author correlates traditional musicology with other scientific spheres, focusing on some philosophical and anthropological theses about a human's “dialogue” with his own inventions. The object of the research became the common work of a specialist in the field of music informatics Christophe Lebreton and a percussionist Jean Geoffroy on projects by two authors: Thierry De Mey and Vincent-Rapha4l Carinola. Thus, the last two parts of the paper are devoted to the key phenomena in their composition process: interactivity and work with gesture while using digital instruments.

IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERSUBJECT COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PROCESS OF STUDYING «MUSIC INFORMATICS»

The article sets the task to consider the interdisciplinary sphere of professional activity related to the creation and use of specialized musical software and hardware – music informatics – which requires knowledge and skills both in the music field and in the field of computer science.The issue of interdisciplinary links and their implementation in the educational process in higher education institutions has been raised in the article. The content of the concept of information competence as a component of professional competence and information culture has been consider.The author argues that the use of intersubject communications contributes to the formation of practical skills and abilities to apply knowledge in one discipline during the study of others.It has been analyzed the importance of pedagogy of cooperation, which uses a variety of forms of learning: group work, collective creative work, work in microgroups, work in variable groups;The result of a scientific article is the conclusion about the feasibility of the high-quality implementation of interdisciplinary connections, the spread of interdisciplinary relations within not only the artistic-aesthetic and related humanitarian cycles in the classes on “Music Informatics”, but also with other, so to speak, deleted subjects; the use of art both as a means of developing special artistic abilities and thinking, and as a universal way of stimulating the creative potential of an individual.Among the prospects for research in this direction, the author identifies a purely practical aspect, in particular, the creation of methodological materials, manuals, the development and implementation of a system that is based on an information technology basis and which takes into account the orientation of students in the use of computer technology in professional and musical pedagogical activities in a subtle combination with other disciplines, the establishment and strengthening of the relationships between them.

On the terminology of electronic (dance) music

Due to rapid technological developments, the terminology of electronic (dance) music is constantly changing. This also causes challenges for the discourse community of electronic dance music in the use of different technical terms. This paper gives a general overview on the subject as it is a pioneer investigation of research. Firstly, it summarises the characteristics of the discourse community’s language use. Later, it highlights the different types of technical terms used by the terminology users. For this, tech terms of a web discussion forum are analysed in detail. The article also describes some of the challenges in using these technical terms by taking different examples from three languages: English, German, and Hungarian. Moreover, phenomena such as the lack of standardisation, norms, and music glossaries and the influences from other terminologies (e.g. classical music, informatics, mathematics, physics) are also included in the study. After presenting the most striking issues, the paper also proposes a possible practical solution to the phenomena in question: it outlines a plan for creating a wiki on the technical terms of electronic (dance) music.