41
edits
Techprolet (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Techprolet (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
'''Application development: DrMed Pavlos Iliopoulos'''<br/> | '''Application development: DrMed Pavlos Iliopoulos'''<br/> | ||
''BSc MedInf Student, Bauhaus University''<br/> | ''BSc MedInf Student, Bauhaus University Weimar''<br/> | ||
==Some historical facts== | ==Some historical facts== | ||
Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
==The original UPIC== | ==The original UPIC== | ||
The UPIC was a unique computer music system, designed as a tool for sound synthesis, to be manipulated specifically in the physical and visual realm. Unlike previous | The UPIC was a unique computer music system, designed as a tool for sound synthesis, to be manipulated specifically in the physical and visual realm. Unlike previous synthesizers controlled by keyboard, this device’s ‘instrument’ was an electromagnetic pen. This pen was used to trace out a visual representation of the sonic result on to an architects digital drawing board. This ‘score’ would then be saved onto the computer’s memory, and could be converted into sound. As Gérard Pape suggests that this was “a technical and musical innovation which permitted the composer to draw all element of his [or her] score from the micro- to the macro structure of the composition. Composition of musical form and sound synthesis were, thus, unified by the UPIC’s approach”<ref>Pape, G. (2001). Introduction [Booklet notes]. CCMIX Paris: Xenakis, UPIC, Continuum [CD]. Performed by Roland, p. 4</ref>. | ||
===How did Iannis Xenakis come up with the idea?=== | ===How did Iannis Xenakis come up with the idea?=== |
edits