Towards Deconstructivist Music: Reconstruction paradoxes, neural networks, concatenative synthesis and automated orchestration in the creative process

Since the 1980s, deconstruction has become a popular approach for designing architecture. In music, however, the term has not been absorbed as well by the related literature, with a few exceptions. In this article, ways to find ideological groundings for deconstructivism in music are introduced thro...

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Published in:Organised sound : an international journal of music technology 2024-04, Vol.29 (1), p.79-90
Main Authors: Nguyen, Philon, Tsabary, Eldad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Aesthetics
Architecture
Art galleries & museums
Automation
Bussotti, Sylvano
CAD
Cage, John
Classical music
Composers
Computer aided design
Constructivism
Modern art
Neural networks
Paradoxes
Personal computers
Philosophers
Reconstruction
Structuralism
Synthesis
Visual arts
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Summary:Since the 1980s, deconstruction has become a popular approach for designing architecture. In music, however, the term has not been absorbed as well by the related literature, with a few exceptions. In this article, ways to find ideological groundings for deconstructivism in music are introduced through the concepts of enchaînement and reconstruction paradoxes. Similar to the Banach–Tarski paradox in mathematics, reconstruction paradoxes occur when reconstructing the parts of a whole no longer yields the same properties as the whole. In music, a reconstruction paradox occurs when a piece constructed from tonal segments no longer yields a perceived tonality. Deconstruction in architecture heavily relies on computer-aided design (CAD) to realise complex ideas. Similarly in music, computer-aided composition (CAC) techniques such as neural networks, concatenative synthesis and automated orchestration are used. In this article, we discuss such tools in the context of this advocated new aesthetics: deconstructivist music.
ISSN:1355-7718
1469-8153
DOI:10.1017/S1355771823000237