Horacio Vaggione: Towards a Syntax of Sound

Jean-Claude Risset (1)

1 LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]

This article stresses the important contribution of Horacio Vaggione to inserting the computer within a musical project. The theoretical contributions of Vaggione shed light upon the way he takes advantage of the computer in his musical activity—not merely for problem solving, but rather as a component of a complex system which intervenes in a genuine polyphony of processes involving a multiplicity of time scales. His musical works evidences concern and imagination concerning morphology: he builds sturdy structures from minute grains. His music reveals novel figures: while bringing to the ear a world made up of atoms, it manifests the arrow of time.

Mots clés: Granular Synthesis; Vaggione; Horacio; Computer Music; Fractals

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Jean-Claude Risset. Horacio Vaggione: Towards a Syntax of Sound. Contemporary Music Review, 2005, 24 (4-5), pp.287-293. ⟨10.1080/07494460500172113⟩. ⟨hal-00096673⟩