Seminar

Pierre Boulez, Seminars 1981–1982

This year's seminars focused on the following topics:

  • Transforming instrumental sound using a real-time digital processor.
  • Expanding the concept of arpeggios using regular delays and techniques such as frequency shifting and ring modulation.
  • Multiplying instrumental rhythms through rhythmic sequences combined with delays.
  • Modification of instrumental sounds using synthesized sounds or other instrumental sounds.
  • Frequency detection: challenges in detecting an instrumental frequency; various applications for triggering either a modification process or a synthesized score.
  • Spatial distribution: dependent or independent of other criteria, such as dynamics.
  • Study of programs on the 4X machine that enable these operations in real time.