Piano in Electroacoustic Discourse of Sound Representations

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the piano’s performance expression in sound representations of electroacoustic opuses by Ukrainian composers. The research methodology is based on musicological, semiotic, cultural, and hermeneutical analysis. The scientific novelty of the study is that for the first time in the study of electroacoustic music of Ukraine, the importance of instrumentalism, namely piano lexicon, in the performance interpretation of sound images of a person, an epoch and the world reproduced in the semiotic-communicative and artistic-figurative space of electroacoustic compositions is emphasised. Conclusions. The creativity of regional composing schools in Ukraine is marked by the use of music and information technologies, as evidenced by the emergence of electromusical, electroacoustic, and audiovisual opuses. Electroacoustic music in Ukraine has a wide range of genre models of a hybrid type, combining the possibilities of acoustic instruments and multimedia technologies. The analysis of works for piano and magnetic tape by K. Tsepkolenko and A. Karnak shows that digital audio modifications provide an expansion of the audio spectrum through processing and programming of the series of sound, noise, and speech genesis, where verbal components reveal the ideological and conceptual basis of the compositions. The expression of the piano, embodied in the stylistics of modernism and avant-garde, shows the absence of elements of ethno-national character, which emphasises the tendency to a "globalised" type of performance aesthetics. In the semiotic and communicative interaction of the piano instrumental part with electronic media, a unique environment of multidimensional unity of movement, time, and space is formed. It reflects the sound images of a person, an epoch and the world in modelling the general philosophical picture of the dual oppositions of immanent and transcendent, which has historical and non-historical significance.

Key words: electroacoustics, music information technologies, composing school, piano art, piano performance, sound image, philosophical picture of the world.