Performing Live Electronic Music

Since digital technologies made real-time sound processing accessible to a wide audience in the 1980s, creative musical practices and aesthetic concepts have undergone fundamental changes. Further technological developments have profoundly transformed the performance practice of live electronics. In this book, philosophers, musicologists,composers, and performersdiscuss the current state of this practice. In addition to creative processes, performative approaches, unresolved questions of obsolescence, and increasing aesthetic diversity, the contributions also address aspects that go beyond the purely musical: The practice of live electronics reveals the diverse interconnections between art and science and shows how technologyis redefiningthe relationships betweenartists, cultures, and environments—with significant implications for the way composers, performers, and audiences perceive, share, and generate meaning and knowledge.

Live electronics thus offers a unique insight into the radical changes and potential of the arts in the face of multiple global challenges.

This volume marks the provisional conclusion of a ten-year research project on the performance practice of electroacoustic music, which was carried out between 2012 and 2023 at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) at Zurich University of the Arts. It complements a variety of other publication formats, including academic essays, work-related practice-oriented articles, performances, and recordings.

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