Reborn Of Avant-garde Music

Reborn of the Avant-garde Music,A Study on Spectral Composition based on Patchwork is my dissertation applying for the Musicology Degree of Ph.D.The dissertation proceeded with concise definition on composing algorithm and algorithm composition, discussing the Spectral School,which is the most significant genre in the computer-aid composition domain.It deeply researched the technology of Spectra Composition starting from the point of researching the basic physical properties of sound.On one hand, exemplifications were taken on the OpenMusic Patchwork platform.It explored,ratiocinated and experimentally analyzed the aspects over material,structure,music and sound for four representative works by two outstanding composers from France,Gerard Grisey(1946-1998) and Tristan Muraill(1947-).On the other hand,based on mentioned above,it not only clarified the relationship between the general composing skills and composing algorithm,but also found out the basic factors of sound performing configuration and structural capacity.It also pointed out that the Spectral School is becoming the advocator of sense and science, holding the attitude of pragmatism and "alternative science" to have so-called physical properties of sound illustrated,mapped and text transformed.In addition,it generally concluded the developments,connections and aesthetics among the Modernism,Avant-garde, Post-modernism and Spectral School.It announced the author's original opinion about the role of Spectral School,its compromise strategy for maintaining the art trailblazing and restricts brought by algorithm logics to artistic innovation over the period of more than 30 years' development of contemporary music.The dissertation finally gave a conclusion about the necessity and feasibility of the personating process of computer-aided composition,by finding out the thinking conflicts existing between algorithm composition and traditional composition,and the ways to resolve.