history · cont2008-antescofo

The consensus for interaction between a live music performance and electronics dates back to early experiments of Maderna, Stockhausen and Davidovsky among others through fixed or tape pieces where the live performer is responsible for synchronizing with the electronics using click-tracks or active listening. Later on in mid 80s, the movement is joined by experiments and repertoire of the so called "real-time electronics", starting from experiments by Manoury and Boulez, where most often a score following application is responsible for synchronizing events of the live instruments to the pre-written score and triggering the appropriate electronic events [...]. Among many criticisms directed towards real-time electronics school, of particular interest are the ones by compsoers Jean-Claude Risset and Marco Stroppa. [...] Since the inception of the first MIDI score followers in 1984 by Dannenberg [4] and Vercoe [5] [...]. It is interesting to note that Vercoe's initial MIDI Synthetic Performer had explicit interaction with the deducted tempo of the live performer