Mixed Music: Performative Particularities

Abstract

In artistic discourse, musical phenomena have tended to be described in an abstract way, both in technical terms and in terms of their terminology, reflecting the transition from the analogue and concrete world to the digital and abstract universe. This article explores mixed music creation and performance processes. The manipulations of the sound allows an extension of expressive and compositional possibilities, as well as a fluidity between these two fields. Through the analysis of interactivity, of the use of electronics in real time and deferred time, as well as of issues related to perception and notation, it is concluded that such processes configure an assemblage in which musical technology has a mediating role.