Abstract
The current submitted work consists of a portfolio of musical works, visual pieces and thoughts that preoccupied me over a period of research and creation from late 2014 to 2017. Pieces described in this thesis developed into an overall artistic research and craft which led to a specific workflow serving a new personal aesthetic. Two parts describe two seemingly antonymous automatic creation processes: automatic versus automatic.The first part describes my inspirations together with a consequent formalization of my composition techniques. I render generative automatic music both emerging from finite state computation and infinitesimal interference.
The second part shows that I often perform my music in specific sites with challenging conditions. I consider them as constraints that eventually also become part of the composition system. The materialization of a piece involves a back-and-forth process, between concepts and realities, that I finally transcend in the sense of surrealist automatism. This mechanical and human process is a necessity for the authenticity to my pieces.
| Date of Award | 21 Sep 2018 |
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| Original language | English |
| Supervisor | P.A. Tremblay (Main Supervisor) |