The Voice of the Upic: Technology and Virtual Agency

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB MUSICA, Volume 69 (LXIX), Special Issue 2, July 2024, pp. 91-102, DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2024.spiss2.07en-US
dc.creatorNELSON, Peter
dc.date2024-07-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T20:17:58Z
dc.descriptionI have previously situated the UPIC of Iannis Xenakis, a computer music instrument of legendary intransigence, as set apart from the mainstream of electroacoustic technologies, developing its own “voice” as the utterance of “prophetic” traces: ancient, not modern. Here, I will approach the sound of the UPIC from the perspective of Robert Hatten’s recent theory of “virtual agency.” The sounds of the UPIC confound traditional notions of meaning in music as expressive – in a human sense and reconfigure what Brian Kane calls the “audile techniques” of a “community of listeners.” Yet the works made with this technology remain engaging and meaningful to us as music. In this paper, I will explore the idea of ‘virtual agency’ as extended to non-human agents, as figured by the events and appearances of the natural world, and consider the ways in which Xenakis allows us, as listeners, to engage with these “virtual agents” through their traces, evident in the graphism of the UPIC’s interface.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/7458
dc.identifier10.24193/subbmusica.2024.spiss2.07
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/2102
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/7458/7233
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2024 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Musicaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Musica; Volume 69, Special Issue 2, July 2024; 91-102en-US
dc.source2065-9628
dc.source1844-4369
dc.source10.24193/subbmusica.2024.spiss2
dc.subjectUPICen-US
dc.subjectXenakisen-US
dc.subjectvirtual agencyen-US
dc.subjectHattenen-US
dc.subjectvitalityen-US
dc.subjectenergyen-US
dc.titleThe Voice of the Upic: Technology and Virtual Agencyen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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