Communicative practices of New Music: beauty as refutation of habit

Abstract

With a topic related to the neo-functional approach the authors carry out their sociological research of communications and practices within the modern music sub-genre. In this article they establish their results related to the theoretical and practical study of communications and environments within New Music. Their aim is a detailed description and analysis of the communicative code proposed by New Music, unraveling its paradoxes, and explaining the content of its innovations. The analysis of different music environments helps to better understand the social appeal of New Music, the possibilities and the limits of its interactions. The insights into the New Music communication practice show that its message is different from one readily available for the conservative philharmonic audience. The New Music message is the music of sound and unusual interpretation of the world’s acoustic system. The observer’s observer, a censor who selects the form is a competent audience not biased against the sound of reality. The beautiful is what manifests itself in a new technical form and is structured against classical rules of harmony or even without sound. New Music communication practices focuses on provocation. It is provocative in the choice of media and form which allows to present silence as music and everydaynoises as a symphony. 

Keywords:

contemporary art, New Music, communications, sociology of arts