An example of reinterpretation of musical works using interactive interfaces: Solo by Karlheinz Stockhausen between performance and improvisation

Abstract

As the motto of the Conference ARTECH 2017, the interface is really now the way in which communication takes place. This is seen both in the way in which technology affects the artistic creation in all fields of the arts for new creation, and also when we try to recreate a message contained in works from the recent past. In this poster, I try to show the results of a new interpretation with an interactive interface of a music piece composed using experimental analogic technologies. The piece is SOLO for a melodic instrument and feedback, composed in 1966 by Karlheinz Stockhausen, a pioneer of electronic music. At that time the realisation of this work needed the collaboration of three or four sound engineers. The piece was then proposed in the following years by the author itself in a digital version, when that becomes possible through technological evolution. In the last years the evolution of technology allows us to re create and perform the piece using an interactive interface. The performer can play itself the whole composition (instrumental and electronic part) and reach even an improvisation. The latter step of this evolution is made possible by a new application, consisting in an interactive interface to reproduce the same patterns of the composer's conception but in an interactive way. The application has been tested by single performers and also by a group of performers creating an improvisation.