The Sound of Resonant Systems

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This lecture presents the work of a composer whose practice moves between acoustic and mixed electroacoustic media, treating sound as both material presence and systemic behaviour. Across chamber, orchestral, and electroacoustic contexts, the music explores gestural complexity, timbral precision, and sculptural tension through fragmentation, microstructural detail, and unstable temporal forms. Acoustic writing foregrounds physical resistance and fine-grained control of sound, while real-time signal processing, convolution, and spatialisation function as integral compositional agents that extend the internal logic of the instrumental material. Rather than treating technology as an external layer, the practice seeks continuity between instrumental and electronic thinking, allowing sound to unfold as a resonant system shaped by internal rules. Here, sound behaves as a mechanism—rigid yet alive—resonating with the aesthetics of algorithms as a felt process rather than explicit computation. This reflects a central intention of the practice: to make musical structures sound mechanical, not by implementing actual algorithms, but by emulating the character of a hypothetical, imagined system whose presence is sensed through repetition, constraint, and behavioural coherence. Performance practice is reimagined as a systemic response to musical data projected onto the score, reflected in the audience, and diffused through space, forming a shared field in which sound, behaviour, and perception converge.

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