Seminar: “Why Write Music?” – Session 7: Writing Randomness
Between November 2024 and May 2025, several seminars around the question What is the purpose of writing music? will be hosted at IRCAM and the STMS laboratory in Paris.
These events will give the floor to composers, performers, and philosophers who view musical writing not only as a functional tool but as a critical, philosophical, and aesthetic gesture in its own right.
By offering a broad overview of contemporary compositional practices, these seminars address both the general public and artists and researchers from other disciplines who have a close relationship with music. They will provide an opportunity to explore what writing can have that is irreducible in musical creation: a unique relationship to time, technology, and sound space.
Program
- Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Writing Chance
- Guests: Charles-David Wajnberg, Gérard Assayag
- Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Between Writing and Improvisation
- Guests: Alexandros Markeas, Jérôme Nika
- Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Writing with Computers
- Guests: Marco Stroppa, Yann Maresz, Jean-Louis Giavitto
- Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Writing the Conditions of Sound
- Guests: Pascale Criton, Samir Amarouche
- Thursday, January 9, 2025
- Writing Sound
- Guests: Denis Dufour, Maxime Barthélémy
- Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Writing Perception
- Guests: Camille Lienhard, Muriel Joubert
- Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Writing or Not Writing
- Guests: Philippe Manoury, Miller Puckette
Information
A seminar by David Christoffel, Julien Labia, Philippe Manoury, Yan Maresz, Véronique Verdier, Charles-David Wajnberg
Organized with the STMS laboratory (IRCAM, CNRS), in partnership with the CIPh (International College of Philosophy)
Supported by the CREAA, Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute, University of Strasbourg
IRCAM, 1 place Igor Stravinsky, 75004 Paris
Stravinsky Room
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM