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    Setting live coding performance in wider historical contexts

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    This paper sets live coding in the wider context of performing arts, construed as the poetic modelling and projection of liveness. Concepts of liveness are multiple, evolving, and scale-dependent: entities considered live from different cultural perspectives range from individual organisms and social groupings to entire ecosystems, and consequently reflect diverse temporal and spatial orders. Concepts of liveness moreover evolve with our tools, which generate and reveal new senses and places of vitality. This instability complexifies the crafting of live events as artistic material: overriding habitual frames and scales of reference is a challenge when handling infinitely scalable computational phenomena. With its generative affordances, improvised interactive programming, and notational possibilities, live coding introduces unique qualities into the performance arena. At the same time, performance history abounds in adaptive systems which anticipate certain live coding criteria. Historic performance and contemporary coding practices raise shared questions that can enhance our understanding of live art, notably to do with feedback, fixed versus on-the-fly programmable conceptual and physical frameworks, and inscriptive practices and notation methods for live action. I attempt to address such questions by setting live coding in a wider performance history perspective

    The giant awakens

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    Glossaire raisonné

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    Des définitions de termes ou de concepts couramment employés au cours de ce numéro, présentées en français et en anglais. Ces définitions ne font pas autorité : elles présentent plutÎt des arguments concernant ces termes.Definitions of terms or concepts commonly used in this issue, presented in English and French. These definitions are not authoritative: rather, they present arguments around these terms

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    The long-run effects of environmental reform in open economies

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    We compare the short- and long-run effects of environmental reform and harmonization under autarky and free trade. When trade is driven by environmental distortions rather than real relative advantages, harmonization of environmental policies, even if achieved by lowering standards in one country, can improve short-run aggregate welfare. With the possibility of multiple steady states, harmonization can improve long-run welfare, especially when the environment is fragile. Further, long-run considerations favor upward harmonization even when it is equivalent to downward harmonization in the short run. For a country trapped in a low (or bad) steady state, environmental reform may not move it to a high (or good) steady state under autarky. However, under trade, harmonization of policies may enable this country to reach the high steady state. Conversely, reforms that increase the relative differences in distortions may, under trade, cause economies to move to a low steady state

    Musique de création et spiritualité : forum à sept voix

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    This investigation of the relationship between the music of creation and spirituality is primarily a reflection set as a forum in seven voices, including remarks by the author. In the fall of 2010, seven musicians from different generations, practices and aesthetics agreed to answer by email the questions drawn up by Circuit’s editorial board. The musicians were Sandeep Bhagwati, Frans Ben Callado, Julie-Anne Derome, Wolf Edwards, AndrĂ© Hamel, Nicolas-Alexandre Marcotte and Rodney Sharman. The questionnaire’s lexical field, particularly polysemic (“spirituality”, “sacred”, “transcendence”, “absolute”), elicited a striking range of viewpoints. But certain constants stand out, notably the almost total absence of faith in the views held. Apparently, the practitioners of the music of creation, in tune with their times, defer to a “spirituality without God” as set forth in the philosophy of AndrĂ© Comte-Sponville.Cette enquĂȘte sur les rapports entre musique de crĂ©ation et spiritualitĂ©, qui se veut avant tout un espace de rĂ©flexion, prend la forme d’un forum Ă  sept voix, prĂ©sentĂ© et commentĂ© par l’auteur. Sept musiciens de gĂ©nĂ©rations, pratiques et esthĂ©tiques variĂ©es ont acceptĂ© de rĂ©pondre, par courriel, Ă  l’automne 2010, aux questions mises au point par la rĂ©daction de Circuit. Il s’agit de Sandeep Bhagwati, Frans Ben Callado, Julie-Anne Derome, Wolf Edwards, AndrĂ© Hamel, Nicolas-Alexandre Marcotte et Rodney Sharman. Le champ lexical du questionnaire, particuliĂšrement polysĂ©mique (« spiritualité », « sacré », « transcendance », « absolu »), a stimulĂ© des rĂ©ponses d’une frappante variĂ©tĂ© de points de vue. Toutefois, des constantes se dĂ©tachent, notamment l’absence presque complĂšte de la foi dans les propos tenus. On peut ainsi penser que les acteurs de la musique de crĂ©ation, en phase avec leur Ă©poque, tendent vers une « spiritualitĂ© sans Dieu », telle que dĂ©crite par le philosophe AndrĂ© Comte-Sponville

    Art performance, manƓuvre, coefficients de visibilitĂ©

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    "La genĂšse de l'art performance est constituĂ©e d'une multitude d'expĂ©rimentations transdisciplinaires qui ont remis en cause les modes d'existence de l'art. PrisĂ©e pour ses audaces souvent spectaculaires, la performance est aujourd'hui cĂ©lĂ©brĂ©e et prĂ©sentĂ©e dans un grand nombre de lieux de diffusion de la culture. ParallĂšlement Ă  ce foisonnement de performances ostentatoires, on observe la prĂ©sence croissante d'autres dĂ©clinaisons du performatif : pratiques furtives, immatĂ©rielles, actions intangibles ou avisuelles
 On parle Ă  ce sujet d'infiltrations, de processus, de manƓuvres, d'art in socius, de services Ă  activer." -- Site web de l'Ă©diteur
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