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Real-time Composition as Performance Ecosystem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2011

Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne Eigenfeldt*
Affiliation:
School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
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E-mail: arne_e@sfu.ca
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Abstract

This article proposes that real-time composition can be considered a new performance ecosystem. Rather than an extension of electroacoustic instruments that are used within improvisatory environments, real-time composition systems are produced by composers interested in gestural interactions between musical agents, with or without real-time control. They are a subclass of interactive systems, specifically a genre of interactive composition systems that share compositional control between composer and system. Designing the complexity of interactions between agents is a compositional act, and its outcomes are realised during performance – more so than most interactive systems, the new performance ecosystem is compositional in nature.

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Organised Sound , Volume 16 , Issue 2: Performance Ecosystems , August 2011 , pp. 145 - 153
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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