The Medium Sound as Score

In the 1950s Schaeffer assembled the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) to create a catalog of sound objects and their specifications, the so-called solfège. The outcome of this groundbreaking research, gives rise to new thinking about compositional methods with a focus on the medium of sound and listening. Continuing technological progress allows composers to use the medium sound, as opposed to writing, as a process-oriented score for musicians.

Virus #1.3 (Igor Gross / Schlagwerk, Elisabeth Schimana / Audiopartiturgenerierung), Liquid Music 2014, Judenburg

Elisabeth Schimana has been working as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. She studied Electroacoustic and Experimental Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Computer Music - Composition at the IEM, Graz and Musicology and Ethnology at the University of Vienna. In her work she has been dealing with space / body / electronics for many years. Elisabeth Schimana gives lectures and composition workshops internationally and founded the IMA Institute for Media Archaeology in 2005.