‘V’Oct(Ritual): the anatomy of an interactive composition' in CYBERNETICS (edited by Lanfranco Aceti)

This chapter looks at the technical and compositional methodologies used in the realization of V’Oct(Ritual)(2011) with particular reference to the choices made with regard to the mapping of sensor elements to various spatialization functions. Kinaesonics[1] will be discussed in relation to the coding of real-time one-to-one mapping of sound to gesture and its expression in terms of hardware and software design. Composing for kinaesonic interaction is an interdisciplinary activity that is not confined to music alone. In terms of my own work with the Bodycoder System, composition extends to the framing of the physicality of the performer: their kinaesonic gestural control of live sound processing, spatialisation and navigation of a Max/MSP environment in performance. Other compositional layers include the live automation of sound diffusion (the physical movement of sound within a multichannel speaker system), the programming of a range of evolving real-time instances initiated by the performer and the design of a large palette of sound processing objects

La question française

The French Question, by Steven Philip Kramer The end of the Cold War and the unification of Germany produced fears on the part of the French political class about France's capacity to continue to play a role of political leadership in Europe. That leadership had depended to a large extent on France's special relationship with Germany. By late 1990, Mitterrand was attempting to strike a new balance between France's desires for national independence, European construction and the Atlantic connection.La fin de la guerre froide et l'unification allemande ont suscité des craintes parmi l'élite politique française sur la capacité de la France de continuer à jouer un rôle de leadership politique en Europe, rôle basé dans une large mesure sur la relation particulière de ce pays avec l'Allemagne. A la fin de 1990, le président Miterrand a cherché à créer un nouvel équilibre entre la volonté d'indépendance nationale de la France, la construction européenne et les relations transatlantiques.Kramer, MIT Press Journals. La question française. In: Politique étrangère, n°4 - 1991 - 56ᵉannée. pp. 959-974