DOI: 10.4231/tv7r-ag03
title: A Thousand Plateaus III, On Musical Time, Lecture 2, 23 February 1978

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The text presented here for scholarly purposes corresponds to the recording of the public session of the IRCAM event, and not to the text published, and deliberately revised by Deleuze (we believe), in Two Regimes of Madness, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina (Paris: Minuit 2003; MIT/Semiotext(e), 2006), pp. 156-160, under the title &quot;Making Inaudible Forces Audible&quot;. Let us note at this moment, Deleuze in the process of developing the themes presented here for his collaboration with Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, notably pp. 262, 267, 298, 545 note 87, and especially, in the plateau on refrains, pp. 316-319]&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;IRCAM is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organisationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The IRCAM event was a five-day colloquium, the first four evenings in closed sessions and the fifth as a public event, with the participation of Roland Barthes, Gerald Bennett, Lucian Berio, Pierre Boulez (organizer), Michel Decoust, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jean-Claude Risset, and several members of the IRCAM team.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The video of this event is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfhwRmyw9Y. This dataset includes two files: a revised French transcription and new English translation in odt format.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Deleuze a particip&eacute; &agrave; une table ronde avec Pierre Boulez, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault et d&rsquo;autres artistes et &eacute;crivains &agrave; l&rsquo;IRCAM le 23 f&eacute;vrier 1978, pour parler du temps musical. Il s&rsquo;agissait de la cinqui&egrave;me s&eacute;ance de cet &eacute;v&eacute;nement collaboratif de la semaine, mais la seule s&eacute;ance ouverte au public. On peut voir cet &eacute;v&eacute;nement &agrave; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfhwRmyw9Y.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Text presented here for scholarly purposes of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s talk at the IRCAM event (Paris) on musical time, 23 February 1978.