The liberation of sound, art-science and the digital domain: contacts with Edgard Varèse.

Varèse insisted that the same poetic impulse could move the composer and the scientist, and he strongly advocated the synergy between art and science, the only way to provide music with new means of expression and 'to infuse it with youthful sap', as he wrote in 1917 (in an article in Picabia's 391...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Music Review Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 27 - 55
Autor principal: Risset, Jean-Claude
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2004
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