About Musical Creation

 

 

 

Tonight, I'm wondering about the process of musical composition...

In my case, the first step is to choose an instrument, a sound, and the processing that will spatialize that sound, fine-tuning it.

So I start by recording a track, in a pre-established key.

Then I move on to a second instrument, a new sound space, a second track.

I have several strategies for this new phase, including copying the first track, shifting it, editing it, subtracting, adding.

Sometimes, with the right sound, the right feeling, I record a new melodic or harmonic track on the fly....

It's an intuitive, improvised creation, based on immediate listening...

I listen again from a critical distance, several hours apart...

I can correct the mix from time to time if necessary.

But often, I feel that what I have recorded "on the fly", improvising as I listen to the other tracks, is profoundly right and relevant...

I think this type of musical composition mobilizes specific levels of awareness, listening and thought, more intuitive, less rationalized, multisensory, no doubt.

I don't claim to consider myself a great composer.

More like a craftsman of electronic and ambient music, who works on his sound materials every day...

I have the feeling that my practice allows me to open up the spectrum of my musical intuition, and to let my hands on the keyboard follow melodic threads imagined in the improvisation itself...