[ircam] Julian Anderson - Spectral centrality

Date: June 14, 2019 Where: ManiFeste-2019, Spectralismes Original title: Spectral centrality: proposals for the introduction of new formal harmonic structures based on discoveries in spectral composition and psycho-acoustics Original description: First generation spectral composers Grisey, Murail, Rădulescu and others, introduced acoustically consonant formations (as well as periodic rhythmical structures), thus reacting against the suppression of consonance and repetition in much atonal, twelve-tone and serial music of the previous 70 years. Such exclusion often resulted in a problematic temporal flatness in so-called ‘atonal’ music, and a consequent dulling of listener expectation in short or longer terms. Unlike minimalism, the first spectral works explored the full range of sound and rhythmic articulation, rather than excluding acoustically dissonant formations and aperiodicity. Grisey’s Partiels (1975) and Mur