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Il feedback nel contesto della dialettica tra suono e musica nella musica elettronica contemporanea

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  • Eric Maestri
Eric Maestri
Sorbonne-Université, Institut de recherche en musicologie (UMR 8223), Francia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/music_tec-15438

Published 2025-06-10

Keywords

  • feedback,
  • language,
  • listening

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Maestri, E. (2025). Il feedback nel contesto della dialettica tra suono e musica nella musica elettronica contemporanea. Musica/Tecnologia, 19(1), 27–41. https://doi.org/10.36253/music_tec-15438

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Abstract

Considered in the context of contemporary electronic music, musical practices employing feedback radicalise interactivity and reference to the environment and the world. Feedback enables a here-and-now experience through a mediation of sound experience. It thus proposes a performative mimesis of space and of the possible interactions that might take place. In this way it radicalises contemporary aesthetics and synthesises the current issues in musical writing. Simon Emmerson’s thought frames this historical period in which feedback plays a special role. Through the analysis of four cases according to Emmerson’s ‘language grid’ method, this study will contextualise feedback practices in relation to the history of electronic music.

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