New technologies prompted a new type of musical creation and a new definition of the instrument concept. Through an historical and technical approach, the author analyses the various fields of technological creativity in the twentieth century: computer music, synthesis, gestural interfaces, psychoacoustics, musical research, new definitions of musical works, the role of composers and musicians in society and in the market economy.
Table of contents:
- Evolution of new musical technologies
- Technological ruptures
- A mutation of the instrument
- Aesthetic revolutions
- The activity of composition
- Conditions and properties of musical creation
- French musical research. Towards an interdisciplinarity
- Psychoacoustics as a new discipline for the studyof the musical object
- A musical object difficult to seize
- Changed relations and mediations
- Statutes and the relations amongst the actors
- Communication between the artist and the public
- Mediation and the economic conditions of musical production