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On the difficulty to consider as a continuity the production of the NHK electronic music studio

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It is known that production at the NHK electronic music studio does not exhibit any theoretical or formal unity obvious enough that we could easily resort to synchronous methods of analysis with a systematic nature, which would allow its essentialization: numerous composers worked there, none of whom stood out – or rather sought to stand out – as the figurehead around which to establish a common direction and precise features. Therefore the play of opposites used to describe production of musique concrète at Club d'essai / GRMC in France and the electronic music of NWDR in Germany cannot be applied to grasp what is created at the NHK as well – or in a more limited fashion. Beyond an analysis of the aesthetics of the pieces which we could constitute – to put it simply – around specific technological, technical and stylistic characteristics, it thus appears necessary to highlight the shared particularities from the cultural context and the work environment in which they were being produced; in other words, the idea would be to extract the core properties on which depend all the ones previously mentioned. To allow that, the development of a diachronic history of the studio's operation is an obvious tool to consider. Indeed, if the studio is where all the repertoire was created it seems natural that it would de facto represent – with high certainty for the researcher – a structural setting, a persistence of stable landmarks, encompassing and levelling the music pieces through the action of agents that we can believe to be irreducible. Yet, some archives tend to show that it cannot be considered self-evident. The purpose of this communication is to underline with a few examples backed by references how it is proving challenging to apprehend the production of the studio in terms of continuity.
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Jeremy Corral. On the difficulty to consider as a continuity the production of the NHK electronic music studio. 2018. ⟨hal-01686970⟩
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