Questions esthétiques et pratiques constructives dans la musique de Soft Machine entre les années '60 et '70

Soft Machine's music from the late 1960s to the early 1970s has formal characteristics and raises aesthetic questions that go beyond the group's artistic specificity, to address the nature of the aesthetics of jazz and rock and their mutual relationship. This process operates on the two distinct levels of the dialectic of musical material and that of the symbolic interaction and social organization of the group of artists. The conceptual infrastructure of the Theory of Audiotactile Music will be used in this respect to reformulate some crucial issues and, based on notational transcriptions of Soft Machine pieces with the specific protocol created by the author, a musical analysis will be carried out with integral sonorized scores, to point out aspects of these aesthetic problems inscribed in the dimension of the same materials and performative practices implemented.