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Acousmatic-Creationism: A creative method for acousmatic music inspired by Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s aesthetic theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2020

Alejandro Albornoz
Alejandro Albornoz*
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Music and Sonic Arts School, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
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Email: akousma.viva@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article assembles and summarises the main ideas presented in the doctoral thesis entitled ‘Voice and Poetry as Inspiration and Material in Acousmatic Music’ by the author and describes his idiosyncratic method for acousmatic composition based on Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s aesthetic theory, which is a system that aims at creating artistic works by taking materials from reality and combining them in unexpected ways. The objective of this combination is an equilibrium between rationality and intuition in order to obtain a poem independent of the real world, in the sense of a poetic outcome which avoids traditional mimesis. This creative system, known as Creacionismo, has a central role between various other theoretical, artistic and mainly poetic sources informing the author’s creative process. Huidobro’s creative system has been applied by the author to acousmatic composition procedures generating the notion of acousmatic-creationist as a nomenclature for the process. This particular creative strategy balances rationality and intuition within acousmatic composition and places poetry as a driving force in the use of voice, merging artistic practice and theory in a recursive action.

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Organised Sound , Volume 25 , Issue 3: On Phonosophy , December 2020 , pp. 333 - 343
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