Hybrid Conceptual musica (HCM).

A case study: The right way

Authors

  • Magda Polo Pujadas Universitat de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/Materia2024.23.9

Keywords:

Hybrid Conceptual Music (HCM), artificial intelligence, electronic music, soundscape, programmatic music

Abstract

This article proposes the creation of a new way of making music and also a new terminology in interdisciplinary contemporary music. The new concept is that of «Hybrid Conceptual Music (HCM)» and responds to a music that would be the successor of programmatic music, which was born in the second half of the 19th century and whose main objective was to make music more comprehensible, make it more democratizing and less elitist. The fact that it was based on an extra-musical element made it more accessible to those who did not have musical skills since it explained or narrated facts. In this new case, that of the MCH, however, which incorporates new technologies and artificial intelligence to explain something extra-musical, it is very important, first of all, the conception of the structure of the work, what it explains and how he says and, secondly, the alliance that is established with other musical manifestations such as electronic music or the soundscape, thus, the terms music, sound and technology merge and follow a new course.

Author Biography

Magda Polo Pujadas, Universitat de Barcelona

Llicenciada en Filosofia per la UB (1988). Doctora en Filosofia per la UB (1997).

Professora titular d'estètica i teoria de les arts i Història de la música del departament d'Història de l'art.

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Published

2024-10-01

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