Or does the music create and recreate me?
Why, over a given period of time, does the music I compose and record follow the same aesthetic, progress along the same path, as if to deepen and perfect an idea, a concept, a project, a set of physical, mental and imaginary sensations translated into constructed sounds, into a sonic temporality?
The same applies to musical composition as to any creative process: painting, sculpture, writing, video, cinema, photography. The artifact created reflects the creator, at a given time and place, what he or she feels, his or her state of mind, his or her experience.
In fact, I believe this is what will always distinguish human creation from creation by artificial intelligence: the latter has no experience and no state of mind. At least not yet.
The music I'm creating at the moment is a quest for slowness and fluidity, almost organic, almost biological and cellular. Sounds stretch, hybridize, meet and collide.
I set to music the mathematical theory of percolation, which models the diffusion of ideas, viruses, language games and tics, representations and models in a society.
It's all bounces, echoes, forks and splits, like a kind of billiard table or pinball machine where the trajectory of sounds is unpredictable and random, yet obeys a profound logic and necessity, that of the life of sounds, which are born, move and fade away.
I love this moment in my musical journey, when I play with silence and time, with concept and chance. It's fascinating to work with sounds, to assemble and construct them in an architecture where space and time are so closely intertwined.
There comes a time when a writer, painter, filmmaker or sculptor finds his or her own voice. I don't pretend to compare myself to the immense creators who have made our world more beautiful, our lives more bearable, through their visions, their language, the audacity of their proposals.
No, I have no such pretension.
But I do have the impression, in the course of my musical work and my album releases, that I'm gradually building a world, a possible world, a world of my own, a cosmology and an ontology that puts sounds in order, in the space-time of a listening session.
I don't care if I'm not commercial, if I don't bend to the standards of Spotify playlists and the like.
I make MY music. Music that reflects ME, that sounds like ME. Music that accompanies ME on my creative and existential quest.
And if you want to listen to my music, please feel free to visit my bandcamp page or all the usual streaming / downloads sites...
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