Top-Rated LABS Abstracts 2022

This thesis presents practice-based research, where voice and poetry both are inspiration and material. It includes a portfolio of acousmatic compositions and a text, a compositional rationale based on Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s aesthetics called Creacionismo , which aims to create artistic works by combining materials from reality through an equilibrium between rationality and intuition. To examine how this rationale operates within the compositions, an analytical methodology is applied using poietic and neutral analyses of the tripartite model proposed by Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990) and Stéphane Roy (2004). The first describes the author’s creative process, and the second details the pieces’ constitutive elements considering Pierre Schaeffer’s sound objects (1966), Denis Smalley’s spectromorphology (1997), levels of spatial function by Annette Vande Gorne (2010), and two original analyses developed by the author: voice type and speech-sound type. The analyses show the pieces’ structure, and consequently how Huidobro’s theory has been applied successfully to acousmatic composition, generating the notion of acousmatic-creationist. The main outcome of this thesis is a new artistic strategy balancing rationality and intuition within acousmatic composition and placing poetry as a driving force in the use of voice, merging artistic practice and theory in a recursive action.