High-tech minimalism is an aesthetic born in the 21st century at the crossroads of academic minimalism and cutting-edge technology. Composers use Max/MSP, SuperCollider, and Ableton Live to create music in which the human controls complex algorithms, not merely plays notes.
Key figures: Ryoji Ikeda (a Japanese composer-artist whose music sounds like “sonic data visualization”), Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai), Tim Hecker. In sound architecture — immersive halls (Klangdome), concerts with 48+ speakers surrounding the listener. In Ukraine the direction is represented by experimental composers of the Kyiv and Lviv academies — Alisa Zaitseva, and Max Cooper in collaboration with Ukrainian visual artists.
