Vers une quête d’« harmonieux » : à propos des compositeurs français de L’Itinéraire à la fin du XXe siècle

2020

Opus musicum angelorium : Quand la musique des « invisibles » émerge aux confins du sensible – Hommage à Giacinto Scelsi

2019

The article focuses on the music of the “invisible”, that is to say, the sound art suggested by the community of angels (between God and Satan). Based on the thought of Boece or Hanslick, Pythagoras or Eliade ... the study touches on both the aesthetics and the musicology of “modern” and “contemporary” music scores (Debussy, Jolivet, Scelsi, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Schnebel, Denisov, Ohana, Henry, Crumb, Grisey, Pintscher, Francesconi, Hurel ...). Conceived as a tribute to Giacinto Scelsi (poet and composer who has often mentioned angels in his poems as well as in his titles of musical works), “Opus musicum angelorium” tries to analyze the limits of the sensitive (at the limit of the inaudib…

« Mouvement est nécessité » Pour une relation au monde du mouvement et de la musique

2021

Starting from a stationary state in order to feed a process, the idea of movement in music can affect both the sound material and the listening (the Hoerspiel...), both the view (musical theater) and the ancillary disciplines (dance or maping-video)... Based on examples taken in the 20th and 21st centuries (Debussy, Berg, Webern, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Kagel, Ferrari, La Monte Young, Xenakis, Adams, De Chizy, De Mey, Trapani?), musicological study ultimately deduces that the metaphor of movement is for man an experience considered fundamental to his particular relationship to the world.