The UPIC system as an instrument of learning

discussed, in particular its relation to the work of its cesses and proportions, and, in the case of his first orginator, Iannis Xenakis, to the science of acoustics and to large-scale works, the preparation of complete the development of an intuitive graphic imagery. A possible graphic scores that had to be laboriously transcribed pedagogical approach to musical creation using the into conventional musical notation. Anecdotally, the resources of the UPIC is developed, and the particular UPIC was conceived as a way of avoiding this labour pedagogical ethos of the system is emphasised. There by transferring this graphism directly into sound, but follows a detailed description of the practical arrangements two more fundamental ideas lie behind this. for a number of different workshop situations using the First there was, of course, Xenakis’ desire to create UPIC system in which the author has participated, and an