Fabrice Mogini
5.0 CONCLUSION.
Most composers seem to interrogate themselves (not always in explicit terms)
on pitch organisation, which shows the importance of the idea of tuning for
sound organisation.
The choice of a tuning system often depends on a compromise between natural
simplicity and a longing for construction possibilities. Both notions interact
together and it is finally culture that dictates what we accept as a tuning
system.
In Western music, where compositional possibilities evolve fast, tuning organisation
only tends to get redefined when the split is too important between musical
language and a natural simplicity.
Today, the idea of note is no longer prominent in sound composition. The sound
object, to be understood in its totality, needs new divisions of the sonic
space and an acceptance of all the other sonic parameters.
Simplicity still prevails but in a more objective way: all the synthesis and
natural sounds (simple or complex) can be integrated in a sound composition.
In such an extended system, the tuning reminds us of unity and creates a link
between tradition and modernism. The notion of tuning is determinant if one
wants to re conciliate music with sounds. We might then come to a definition
such as: "Music is the art of all the audible sounds."
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