@inbook{1f0674ef530c45a6b63a7eb7fcd437a9,
title = "Michael Levinas: Timbre, Technology and Hybridation",
abstract = "This chapter discusses some key aspects of the compositional development of Micha{\"e}l Levinas with reference to a significant number of his compositions, including the operas Les N{\`e}gres and La M{\'e}tamorphose. Levinas studied composition with Messiaen alongside Grisey and Murail, and he was a founding member of the group L{\textquoteright}Itin{\'e}raire in 1973. While he describes his work as having progressed in parallel with his spectral colleagues, he came to recognize his distinctive contribution to the aesthetic over time. Levinas{\textquoteright}s composition is marked by his idiosyncratic treatment of timbre, his use of technology including loudspeakers, and his interest in hybridizing musical sounds through the placement of sound bodies in vibration with one another. Achieved at first in more rudimentary ways, Levinas developed this with great sophistication at IRCAM in the 1990s to produce what he terms “the new mixity.” The chapter concludes with an exposition of the expressive potential of Levinas{\textquoteright}s approach to sound.",
keywords = "Timbre, hybridization, new mixity, loudspeakers, opera",
author = "Edward Campbell",
year = "2022",
month = oct,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633547.013.59",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780190633547",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "C59.P1–C59.N102",
editor = "Amy Bauer and Liam Cagney and Will Mason",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music",
}