The Physical Model as Metaphor for Musical Creation: "pico..TERA", a Piece Entirely Generated by Physical Model

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.bbp2372.2002.063International audienceWe will present in the first part of this paper a musical work, pico..TERA, recently created by the author, which is a 290-second piece entirely generated by one (non real-time) run of a complex physical model "orchestra". With this work, we will show how a musical piece can be created, from its micro- to its complete macro-structure by the means of a physically-based formalism. Then we will identify the concepts within the piece that introduce this new dimension of "musical construction". From a theoretical analysis of the specific examples and applications in the piece, we will induce and introduce a general conceptual framework for musical composition through physical modeling and will explain in the last section the fundamental "paradigm shift" to which it corresponds