Concept
The use of digital devices in social relations and the ensuing change in dialogue-subjective
instances of communication have allowed further possibilities, linked both to the plurality and
to the simultaneity of subjective expressions. By increasing the communication between the
one and the many, on-line communication proposes new articulations within the processes of
the formation of meaning, and at the same time compels us to reconsider many cultural practices
based on separateness. Besides their visibility, the co-existence of different descriptions of the
same kind of event requires cultural processes capable of simplifying the routes of the social
validation of fields of knowledge, perhaps hitherto separate, and capable of reducing existing
asymmetries between producers and consumers, artistic and technological experimentation,
aesthetics research and processes of knowledge diffusion. Besides, new orientations rely upon
a vision which considers musical events as objects or processes within a system of mobile
references and roles, where meanings and structures could be reshaped many times.
Biographical note. Born 1951, Dante Tanzi graduated in Philosophy from
Milan University and went on studying electronic composition and musical
analysis. Since 1985 he has been working at L.I.M., (Musical Informatics
Laboratory), Computer Science Department, Milan University, under the
scientific direction of G. Haus. The research conducted at L.I.M.primarily
regards the study of methodologies for the analysis, theformal description
and the synthesis of musical processes and the development of s/w tools
for multimedia performances.
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