Listening and Technique: An Approach to Creative and Perceptual Processes in Live Electronic Music

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v12i1.38250

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live electronic music, technical mentality, perception, corporeality, creative process

Abstract

In this article, we argue that it is possible to establish a line of continuity between the techniques used in creative processes of live electronic music (composition and performance) and the processes of listening and perception of these compositions. Within this approach, we present as a theoretical reference concepts elaborated by Gilbert Simondon concerning, on the one hand, to the construction of a technical mentality and, on the other, to the study of perception. In this approach, both concepts are mediated by analogous notions of transduction, modulation and corporeality. We discuss this framework by detailing actions in the creative process of the work Interstício de tempo (2020), for flute, live electronics and video, in relation to synthesis, sound processing, spatialization and video. Finally, we seek to articulate the theoretical concepts presented with the technical and perceptual features of the musical work in question.

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Author Biographies

Danilo Rossetti, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)

Danilo Rossetti is a composer, researcher, professor and performer of electroacoustic music. He is the author of compositions for different instrumental, acousmatic, live electronics and multimedia formations (audiovisual installations, music, dance and telematics) presented at national and international events, as well as the author and co-author of several articles on creative processes in music and musical analysis. He is an assistant professor in the Arts Department at Federal University of Mato Grosso, UFMT, a permanent lecturer in the Professional Master's in Music program at UFMT and the Postgraduate in Music program at the Unicamp Arts Institute, State University of Campinas, IA-UNICAMP, and leader of the research group “Composition, analysis and musical performance with computational support” (UFMT/CNPq). He has a PhD in Music from UNICAMP and a doctoral stage at the Research Centre in Informatics and Musical Creation, CICM, of the Paris 8 University. He developed a post-doctoral research at the Interdisciplinary Center for Sound Communication, NICS-UNICAMP, with support from The São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP.

Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Cássia Carrascoza, flautist, improviser, and media artist, she holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Arts, specializing in Musicology and Musical Creation. She is a professor at School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, ECA-USP's Department of Music, where she coordinates LaFlauta – the Flute Laboratory – and the LaFlauta Telematic Ensemble, a remote chamber group with students and international guests. As a visiting researcher at the University of California, Riverside (2021-2024), she focused on telematic music and technology-mediated performance. With over 20 years dedicated to Brazilian contemporary music, she performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and interpreter of new works. She was principal flautist of the São Paulo Municipal Theater Symphony Orchestra (1999-2018) and has performed in the U.S., China, and Europe. Actively engaged in transnational music projects, she regularly publishes on music and technology. Since 2024, she has been Director of the University of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSUSP).

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Published

12-06-2025

How to Cite

ROSSETTI, Danilo Augusto de Albuquerque; BOMFIM, Cássia Carrascoza. Listening and Technique: An Approach to Creative and Perceptual Processes in Live Electronic Music. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, Natal, v. 12, n. 1, 2025. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v12i1.38250. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/38250. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2025.