• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: BOULEZ, INFORMATION SCIENCE AND IRCAM
  • Beteiligte: Maconie, Robin
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press, 2017
  • Erschienen in: Tempo
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0040-2982; 1478-2286
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  • Beschreibung: <p>The rise of information science and its effect on contemporary arts is a topic raised in Stravinsky and Craft's Memories and Commentaries in 1959. It makes sense to inquire how the fundamental priorities and exact discriminations of communications science might have altered the ground rules of musical invention and contemporary listening habits. Answers lie thin on the ground, the few composers most deeply implicated in the information revolution – Babbitt, Boulez, Stockhausen and Cage in particular – having chosen to remain silent on issues relating to the hidden side of the avant-garde. 'No gossip!' said Stockhausen to me, in a blunt email in 1998.</p>