If I pursue this reflexive (and ego-centric) effort - what is the music I'm trying to create?
... a few key-words come to mind...
- SLOWNESS: my music is a praise of slowness. Stretched, multidimensional time... taking the time... to listen, to follow the birth, the apogee, the evanescence of a sound...
- INTROSPECTION: my music is introspective... I mean, it doesn't invite you to dance at a techno rave (I've got nothing against techno raves!), but to focus on the present moment, whether it's daydreaming, relaxation, intellectual concentration, meditative accompaniment... That is... Just listening to music...
- ABSTRACTION: I like the idea that music sculpts and reconfigures mental spaces, helping us to perceive the world and reality from different points of view. I like the idea that music helps the listener perceive... abstract forms, ideas, possible worlds, unsuspected spaces...
[among the albums that have given me this experience, both aural and intellectual... Tangerine Dream [Phaedra, Rubycon, Zeit, Atem]... Klaus Schulze [rrlicht, Cyborg, Black Dance, X, Mirage...], Brian Eno [On Land, Music for Airports, Apollo...].
- MINIMALISM: a good musician must erase, subtract, renounce, reach the essential, the quintessence, in an economy of sounds, in a reaffirmed demand for listening...
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