Research Catalogue

This research project proposes multiple paths towards the development of a performance practice in computer music. It starts with the author’s transition from traditional instrumentalist to electronic musician, assessing the roles of composer, performer and instrument builder as integrated in computer music practice. Three of the case studies presented in this thesis suggest approaches to understand the notion of interpretation with electronic instruments, introducing the methods of reconstruction, reinterpretation and re-appropriation as applied to the performance of music by Cage, Feldman and Nono. The remaining five case studies deal with the author’s own creations, developed on the basis of concepts such as mapping, sonification, historical contextualisation and spatialisation, and informed by the multithreaded role of the computer music practitioner. The situation of the performer of electronic instruments in relation to traditional instrumentalists is a topic of consideration throughout this thesis, informing the final conclusions as well as refuelling the questioning for future work. ---- Thesis information (in Dutch): Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op dinsdag 2 december 2014 klokke 16.15 uur door Juan Parra Cancino geboren te Osorno (CL) in 1979 Promotiecommissie Prof. Frans de Ruiter 1e promotor Prof. Richard Barrett 2e promotor Dr. Marcel Cobussen co-promotor Prof. Clarence Barlow Prof. Dr. Nicolas Collins School of the Art Institute of Chicago Prof. Dr. Simon Emmerson Leicester Media School, De Montfort University Dr. Vincent Meelberg Prof. Dr. Larry Polansky University of California, Santa Cruz Dit proefschrift is geschreven als een gedeeltelijke vervulling van de vereisten voor het doctoraatsprogramma docARTES. De overblijvende vereiste bestaat uit een demonstratie van de onderzoeksresultaten in de vorm van een artistieke presentatie. Het docARTES programma is georganiseerd door het Orpheus Instituut te Gent. In samenwerking met de Universiteit Leiden, de Hogeschool der Kunsten Den Haag, het Conservatorium van Amsterdam, de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven en het Lemmensinstituut.

Using Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Solo für Melodieinstrument und Rückkoppelung (1965 - 66) as starting point for investigating the affect and effect of technological transference when reproducing historical repertoire with live electronics, we aim to shed light on the misconception of “transparency” of sound reinforcement and current digital media, and how this colouring can (and perhaps should) be used to inject new life and ask new questions to the works it aims to preserve. On the footprint of a rendition that will aim to reflect as close as possible the original performance tradition of the piece, we will later allow the possibilities of current Network, signal processing and reinforcement technology shape and colour a radical interpretation of simultaneous Solo(s).

This is an exposition on the re-interpretation of Bruno Maderna's Hyperion

Juan Parra C. | Orpheus Institute, Ghent, BE Day 2, 10 November, De Bijloke Rotonde, 22:15-21:30 The Dogon Egg and the Distribution of Intensities. (ATP 149)

This is an exposition to showcase ME21 Hyperion and Nietzsche projects during the 2016 Orpheus Academy

Simulation of the 1819 version of the Diabelli Variations.

A project by ME21

A series of works designed within the framework of MTT, aimed to: Play with different notions of "Network": as algorithm, as descriptor for telematics, as compositional tool (like in "Timbre Networks") Use each iteration/performance to inform/affect/define/enrich the "following" performance. This will be achieved by preserving one aspect of the performance that can be perceived as "highly volatile" (a dancer reacting to the highly improvised music. like in the first version) and convert it into a digital stream of data, mapped to control (and therefore, automatise) an aspect of the following performance.

Presentation/proposal page for "Three States of Wax" Jonathan Impett, Trumpet and Computer Juan Parra Cancino, Guitar and Electronics

The title and approach derive from Michel Serres’ investigation of the materials of physics. Developing Decartes’ thought experiment of a piece of wax (always the same, always different), Serres identifies three views: the object as perceived, the object as described in terms of its properties, and the object as an informational nexus that not only embodies the entire history of its own genesis and interaction, but is further transformed in each encounter or interrogation. The latter, he suggests, is the appropriate view in an informational world. Knowledge derives from the interference of such models.

This is a repository of the work done by the author to create a live performance version of Éliane Radigue's feedback piece "Usral"