I'm continuing my reflexive thread about music (my music, but non only...). Basically, what are these auditory artifacts that I construct and decide, at a given moment, to share with an audience?
I like the term "artifact". Because music is constructed. It's the result of craftsmanship, of assembly, of shaping. I don't share the mythology of the creative genius who produces a work by pure intuition, without effort. Music is the result of work, like a text, a painting or a sculpture. It is an artifact.
Music is first and foremost a segment of time: there is a beginning, an end, a measurable duration. But at the same time, we know that certain types of music linger in the mind and sensibility of the listener long after the end of listening, in the form of a kind of memorial halo... Music is a segment of time shared with the musician, but also with all the other listeners, particularly in the context of collective listening, in a concert for example.
Music is also a multi-dimensional space, with three or more dimensions, where sounds, harmonics and melodies move, coexist and overlap. The very essence of music is to create spaces that can defy the laws of physics and geometry, through the trajectory and layering of sounds, through the interplay between proximity and distance, through scales of depth.
Electronic, ambient or acousmatic music sculpts spaces that are possible or impossible, Euclidean or non-Euclidean, reassuring or vertiginous.
I like to play with panoramic effects, delays and reverberations to create immersive environments that lead listeners to rethink their position in relation to the sounds they hear...
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