The Cdmc holds a unique collection representing all aesthetics within musical creation. This collection has grown thanks to the collaboration of composers, publishers and Radio France. With a consultation area open to the public, the centre also affords access to many online resources through the Catalogue and the Gateway to Contemporary Music. A beacon of the latest music news with its website, the Cdmc organises encounters with the movers and shakers of contemporary music.
The Cdmc presents a season of encounters, seminars and day study sessions designed to counterpoint the views of specialists and professionals and to spotlight composers and performers. Focussing on topical aspects of the music scene, they are organised in collaboration with the main players of musical creation: ensembles, centres for creation, festivals, etc., as well as with those involved in research, the universities and conservatories. Dédicaces (Dedications): these are encounters featuring newly released books, discs or DVDs.
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The influence of scientific theories on the renewal of forms in contemporary music
Coordination Márta Grabócz
Musicological enquiry into musical form has often been kept within the framework of a ‘mechanistic’ description or else one under the influence of Gestalttheorie (according to André Souris.) From the 1970s, those who truly tried to escape from the rigid, traditional and ‘mechanistic’ framework of formal conceptions, were the composers themselves. It was Xenakis and Ligeti who gave the initial impulse, while members of the following generation studied scientific works (on fractal geometry, catastrophe, chaos theory, the systems of Lindenmayer, astro-physics, semio-narrative structures, mathematical models, etc.).
In the course of these day sessions the attempt will be made to establish dialogues between composers, scientists and musicologists with the aim of learning more about the approach taken by creative artistes and to see the way in which they have been influenced by the study of scientific works. Did the reading of books by René Thom, Jean Petitot, Henri Atlan and other scientists provide merely metaphors for composition, or did the expansion of knowledge enable composers to develop a formal/structural system derived from the scientific models themselves?
With the participation of Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jean Petitot, Henri Atlan, François Bayle, Alessio Elia, Tom Johnson, Fabien Lévy, Hector Parra, Jean-Claude Risset ; José Luis Besada, Moreno Andreatta, Marie-Cécile Barras, Jean-Marc Chouvel, Olivier Class, Nicolas Darbon, Nathalie Herold, Mihu Iliescu, Florent Jedrzejewski, Mikhail Malt, Pierre Michel, Laurent Pottier, Benny Sluchin, Ting-Ting Yang.
Partnership Cdmc – GREAM– Université de Strasbourg
