I think of my DAW (Ableton Live) as a musical workbench.
It's a space where I place and move sound objects, where I sculpt and shape them, where I transform them.
Electronic music is an art of transformation, of sculpture, of painting, of putting sound objects into space.
I retouch the color, luminosity, volume, position and trajectory of each of these objects by hand.
It's not the plug-ins or the DAW interface that decide my musical creation, but my manipulation of sound objects, my trial and error, my imperfect, intuitive and therefore totally human decisions.
My synths are both paintbrushes and color palettes.
Plugins allow infinite nuances and retouching.
Listening to me and my listeners is like fine-tuning the composition in progress.
In other words, my electronic compositions are indissociable from a creative practice, which is played out in improvisation, or rather in the intuition that gradually builds the idea, the concept...
With virtual synthesizers, plug-ins and the writing, painting and sculpting space that is my DAW, I rediscover the tactile, artisanal, gestural dimension of my past work on analog modular synthesizers.
It's all about fingering.
Experimentation.
In the twist of the hand...
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