Philosophy of transgumanism and the New music

Abstract

The article is devoted to the influence of the phenomenon of transhumanism on contemporary culture and new music. Concept based on the transhumanist ideas penetrate to the modern musical culture: among them the direction of the «New Complexity», and J. Xenakis’s algorithmic composition, using stochastic and deterministic procedures. It becomes very relevant and opposite ideas, vector-oriented socio-environmental movement environmentalism. The article also discusses transhumanist ideas in the K. Shtokhauzen’s works, in the context of the problems of technological determinism and a critical position in relation to this phenomenon. Analysis of the process of mutual influence transhumanist philosophy and ideas of new music dedicated to this article. During the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the system of values of new music and, in particular, post-serial period, along with the desire for novelty and provoke the listening perception, not less important is the commitment to the acoustic environment and silence. Between these two poles of the modern civilization, and there is a new music that reflects the specific features of the real world through artistic concepts.