L.I.M. Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale, Università degli Studi di Milano

After majoring in Philosophy Dante Tanzi went on to study composition and electroacoustic music. Since 1985 he has been working at L.I.M., the Musical Informatics Laboratory of the University of Milan. Besides taking an active part in the cultural and artistic initiatives of the laboratory, he has participated in research projects on the development of s/w tools for musical and multimedia performance and pilot projects for the recuperation of musical heritages. This investigation has been influenced by a general reflection on the changes in the communicative processes brought about by digital technologies. He has published essays on CTheory, Leonardo Music Journal, Leonardo, Organised Sound, Cogito, Crossings, Organised Sound, Contemporary Music Review. Since 1988, Dante Tanzi’s compositions have been performed in Italy and abroad.

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CONFERENCE – BRIEF ABSTRACT:

Networked environments and musical recognition

The placing of musical phenomena in the communicative space of the net produced a change in the conditions of appearance of musical events and of their ‘objectification’. In a networked environment multiple messages affect the contours of musical reception, and pose the problem of tracing the origin of points of view as well as of the perception of context changes over time. A linear, oriented temporality triggers expectation of recognition of musical structures, whereas a fluctuating temporality raises the question of the recognizability of musical processes each of which has open and numerous references. It is a question of indicating which new potentials can be attributed as much to the ‘listening subject’ as to any other individual placed in a network-situation where a non-oriented temporality precipitates musical meanings and designates musical codes, often outside any pre-defined rule.