HEART NEVER DIES

Price :$2

Duration: 12 Minutes

Description:

For soprano & tenor, percussion, synthesizer, two NeXT computers (1990, NeXT Station, Apple) with real-time device, in collaboration with engineer Jean Laroche, duration 12 minutes, Center for Music Experiment (CME), UCSD, Sans Diego.

Like the previous piece, but in a different direction, Hearts Never Die is applied research between science and art, technology and creation, traditional composition and computer music. The "NeXT Station" (NeXTSTEP, OpenSTEP, WebObject) symbolizes an object-oriented supercomputer with a high-definition sound card. This system, which is still in the experi-mental phase and has been popularized by the Mac OS X system (since 1998), requires a more complex computer encoding than MIDI. The "techno-creator" musician's task deontol-ogy offers various opportunities for intervention, from the design of the compositional sys-tem to programming in the languages used - C, C++, LISP (List Processor, similar to the languages used in artificial intelligence) and other modular design software, such as MAX-MSP, through to the technical engineering of the hardware (equipment), including sound re-cording management, processing using audio/MIDI interfaces (effects, rhythm and sampling boxes, amplifiers, mixers and panning systems) and sound reinforcement, right through to loudspeaker output. Ahead of the home studio of the mid-nineties, the NeXTStation offers powerful real-time computation capabilities. They become an interesting challenge for com-posers who are constantly seeking to reinvent the world of sound, based on the physical assumptions of sound, its material and the technical manipulation that can be applied to its components. A more detailed look at the means of synthesis used in audio technology can be found in the "Cello & Co" chapter.