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Ma Mère l'Oye (excerpt) from Jean Detheux on Vimeo.
This is a sketch I did in 2010, practising "real-time" work with the GL Mixer.
Today, I heard a recording of a concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (http://www.yannicknezetseguin.com/biography.html) during which they performed "Ravel's "La Valse."
It made me remember this almost forgotten sketch (Ravel and Nézet-Séguin again, but with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra), and as is so often the case, I realized, viewing it, that its underlying (visual) structure swam right into what I am working on today (a movement of one of Bach's Trio Sonatas, more on that later).
Once again, I am trying to enter -and remain in- some kind of "global" (or "[w]holistic") listening, refraining as much as I can from employing "smarts," doing my best to let things "emerge" from an undifferentiated whole, rather than constructing a (false) whole by adding (equally false) parts.
Much of this has already been explored by many painters, but a lot less so in "animation/visual music," a field which seems to have a hard time outgrowing the 19th Century Salon aesthetic, and/or avoid our current time's naive fascination with "techno-plumbing" (if interested, more on that here: http://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=346#comment-554).
One of my dreams is to have one day the privilege of (visually) performing (improvising on) this (and other) piece(s), live, with an orchestra...
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