Komponist, Frankreich

Vortrag:

"Performance Topology: A Science of multi-dimensional Composition"

ABSTRACT
Most disciplines of science are mathematically interrelated. In this paper we will apply mathematics to multimedia. Parameter synthesis, data processing and resynthesis as a structural approach to combine various disciplines of art. Perception and cognition as a computational process of data structures interfacing the 'human system', which restricts all data applied to the capabilities of the 'human factor'. Audio and visual information is treated topologically as two separate spaces, which are related to each other on the level of their parameters. The mathematical synthesis of parameters allows for operational processes to be applied multi-dimensionally. 'Performance Topology' will be related mathematically to 'Multi-Dimensional Composition'. Philosophical models of nature are a source for data generation and structuring. The uncertainty principle is reflected by the way parameters are treated. Multimedia and real-time signal processing is here to create a new era of interdisciplinary developments.

INTRODUCTION
During the last centuries performing practice has been under steady development responding to change in style, techniques and instruments. Centuries of this practice have created an artistic vocabulary, unconsciously present and inherited through our cultural environment. Up to the first half of this century, performance practice could be categorised as causal. In as much as the result is recursive. With the event of real-time signal processing, which has the capacity to create synthetic environments and non causal data transformations, a multi-dimensional performance is now possible. This coincides with philosophical thinking of the 20th century. Performance Topology is the result of the science of multi-dimensional composition. It represents events in time, space and lovcates music within environments. Space is considered multi-dimensional and therefore, will result in a topological structure of all coordinates. The science of "Multi-Dimensional Composition" is to interrelate parameters of multiple dimensions. The approach taken by the author of this paper is by the use of mathematics.
A multi-dimensional operation requires a spatial representation of the parameters involved. This can be achieved by relating events numerically to be presented topologically. Mathematically, this situation can be seen as a vector space of n dimension.

Kurzbiographie:

Freischaffender Komponist,

am 19. Dezember 1952 in Seesen, Deutschland geboren.
Studien an der Ernst August Universität Göttingen 1976-1979.

In der Fakultät Musikwissenschaft, Studien der  Harmonielehre und des Kontrapunkts mit Hermann Fuchs, Musikdirektor der Universität Göttingen.

Stipendium für 'electronic music composition' vom Royal College of Music in London, Great Britain, von 1988-90. Mit Professor  Lawrence Casserley.

Stipendium von der 'Akademie de Paris'  für Komposition. Arbeit im Studio von Xenakis am UPIC-Computer.   Vier Kompositionen elektronischer Musik, aufgeführt in Darmstadt, Tokio, Hong Kong, Berlin und  Paris.

1988 erster Preis für Computer Musik an der Technischen Universität Berlin.
1991/92  algorithmische Komposition am ZKM Karlsruhe.

 Forschung bezieht sich auf 'live-electronic, multi-dimensionale composition' .

'Performance Topology : A science of multi-dimensional composition', wurde von der 'Deutschen Gesellschaft für elektronische Musik' veröffentlicht. (erster Teil , März 1995)

Dieses Thema wurde am IRCAM und auf dem Klangart Kongress in Osnabrück 1997 vorgetragen.

Eine Aufführung der Komposition 'INVISIBLE WORLDS', die das Konzept dieser Theorie umsetzt, wurde bei der 'JIM99' Konferenz in Paris gegeben.

Die CD- 'TRANSFORMATION', Computer und elektroakustiche Musik ist 1999 erschienen.