Collaborative Dynamics in Electroacoustic Music Creativity: Telematic Dialogues Across Apparatuses

Paulo C. Chagas; Ivana Petković Lozo

doi:10.5216/mh.v26.85132

Autores/as

Paulo C. Chagas University of California, Riverside, California, USA paulo.chagas@ucr.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1706-5508
Ivana Petković Lozo University of California, Riverside, California, USA ivanap@ucr.edu https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4847-3077

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v26.85132

Palabras clave:

electroacoustic music. collaboration. creativity. apparatus. telematic dialogue.

Resumen

This paper investigates the dynamics of electroacoustic music collaboration within complex techno- logical, social, and philosophical frameworks. Emphasizing the interplay between human creativity and technical apparatuses, it draws on theoretical concepts such as Vilém Flusser’s telematic dialogue, Jacques Attali’s notion of composition as resistance, Martin Heidegger’s ontology of art and technology, and Niklas Luhmann’s systemstheory. Through historical examples—including the WDR Electronic Music Studio—and recent works by composer Paulo C. Chagas and flutist Cássia Carrascoza, particularly Sound Imaginations: Telematic Immersion , the paper examines how electroacoustic practices generate new forms of authorship, co-presence, and symbolic ritual. These practices challenge conventional boundaries between composer, performer, audience, and machine, proposing a participatory model of creative exchange instead. Ultimately, the study argues that electroacoustic collaboration reshapes not only the process of music-making but also broader modes of technological engagement, cultural production, and social interaction in the digital era

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Biografía del autor/a

Paulo C. Chagas, University of California, Riverside, California, USA paulo.chagas@ucr.edu

Paulo C. Chagas is an international composer, scholar and a Professor of Composition at the University of California, Riverside, USA. With a prolific output of over 230 works that span orchestra, chamber music, electroacoustic, audiovisual, multimedia, and telematic music, Chagas innovative approach integrates advanced technology in music production and composition. A survivor of torture by the Brazilian military, his music reflects themes of healing and resistance. Chagas studied at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège (Belgium) and the Cologne Academy of Music (Germany), earning his PhD in Musicology from the Université de Liège. In the 1990s, he was the sound director and composer-in-residence at the WDR Electronic Studio in Cologne. Chaga’s compositions, showcase his ability to fuse traditional musical elements with electronic and digital innovations. As a scholar, he has contributed to the fields of music semiotics and the philosophy of technology. His publications include 'Unsayable Music' (Leuven University Press, 2014), 'Sounds from Within: Phenomenology and Practice' (Springer, 2021), and 'Zwischen Klängen und Apparaten: zur Theorie und Praxis der elektronischen Musik' (Rediroma, 2021). Chagas's research was recognized with the prestigious Fulbright Research Scholar Award for a residency in Berlin (2022-23).

Ivana Petković Lozo, University of California, Riverside, California, USA ivanap@ucr.edu

Dr. Ivana Petković Lozo is a musicologist whose research focuses on European fin-de-siècle music, the interplay among music, literature, and the visual arts, and the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of musical experience. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she taught for fifteen years as an Assistant Professor of Musicology. Also contributed to the Interdisciplinary Studies program at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her teaching portfolio spans undergraduate and graduate courses on Western music history, fin-de-siècle Serbian music, aesthetics, contemporary musical poetics, synesthesia, and interdisciplinary approaches to music. She initiated the master’s program Artistic Synesthesia: Theory and Practice at the University of Arts and has supervised numerous student research projects, master’s theses, doctoral artistic projects, and cross-disciplinary studies. She has also participated in international research initiatives at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Vienna, and through the Erasmus+ program at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. As a project leader and co-investigator, she has demonstrated strong expertise in grant writing, research management, and interdisciplinary coordination, contributing to projects supported by academic institutions, government agencies, international foundations, and university research councils. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside, US, and an active member of the International Musicological Society (IMS), American Musicological Society (AMS), the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS), The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the College Music Society (CMS), the Serbian Musicological Society (SMS), and the Music Writers’ Chapter of the Composers’ Association of Serbia.