An inquiry into the composer's studio for contemporary music

How can the "technical medium" of the contemporary composer be identified? In order to suggest an answer we invoke a study written in collaboration with Jacques Theureau concerning the compositional activity of Philippe Leroux. Through a reconstruction of the genesis of his work Voi(rex), we observed a constant interpenetration of several technical and technological layers dating from radically different areas, parts of which can be linked directly with Weberian preoccupations. An analysis of the details of Leroux compositional operations and their technical environment allows us to grasp the (re)productive dynamic of an as yet unnamed technical medium.