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The article presents a discographical listing, by record label, of the recorded works by Québec composers. It analyzes production content of the four most important labels: McGill University Records, Centredisques, SNE and CBC Enterprises. The author evaluates the impact of the disappearance of CBC International and presents a rather pessimistic view of future prospects.
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AbstractThe author explains the direction he has taken over the last few years, derived from a concern for reconciling the experimental means used in concrete music and the formal abstraction that is associated with instrumental composition. He achieves this synthesis by operating a critical review of Pierre Schaeffer's typo-morphologie.
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During the 20th century, the development of sound recording and information technologies revolutionized the musical practices of many creators. Fascinated by the unprecedented sonic possibilities of these new tools, musicians became technicians, engineers, and even programmers in order to realize their musical goals. The need for up-to-date equipment (rare and very expensive at first), as well as the technical knowledge to use and develop it, gave rise to research and creative centres where engineers and composers gathered. The present article examines the early institutions that were so important to the discipline, focusing on two key figures in the development of musical technology, Pierre Schaeffer (grm, France) and Max Mathews (Bell Labs, United States), often referred to as the fathers of electroacoustic and computer music. Mathews' primary collaborators are also discussed: Jean-Claude Risset, and John Chowning of Stanford University. Sections of the article describe the history of the very first studios, which were founded by state broadcasters, as well as others that sprang up at North American universities during the 1950s. The survey concludes with French institutions that appeared in the 1960s and 1970s. These groundbreaking institutions cultivated important research and creative activities that sparked the development of technological tools for musical creation.
Keywords: électroacoustique, électronique, informatique musicale, recherche musicale, studios, technologie, electroacoustic, electronic, computer music, musical research, studios, technology
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We measured with a survey on a student sample the link between musical preferences and their political attitudes, which is a first time in a Québec context. We notice that the link between musical preferences and political attitudes is weak. Nevertheless, our results indicate that an appreciation for more political musical genres (rock, metal, hip-hop, folk) is associated with the evaluation of certain federal/provincial parties and with certain political attitudes (political interest, ideology and economic conservatism). The strength of this relationship is not affected by the musical involvement of the participants. We also observe that the nature of this relationship is similar in the United States and in Québec.
Keywords: politique, Québec, musique, questionnaire, quantitatif, politics, Québec, music, survey, quantitative