Presence and absence of creation /3icar IcarEditions

Stéphane de Gérando (1)

1 3icar - Institut International pour l'Innovation, la création artistique et la recherche

Originally, this reflection was part of one of the research themes presented during a viva to become habilitated thesis director in France (2005) and had the following premise: contemporary musical creation cannot be confused with the presence or existence of the piece. To think creation through, I avoided the iterative idea of the piece on the piece by using an element which is exterior to the work: concept. The six chosen concepts did not belong to traditional musicological and analytical language, to « shatter the impulse of a reflex expression » and to « destroy within the non-debated convictions », as Bachelard would say (La psychanalyse du feu, p. 186). Following “L’oeuvre musicale contemporaine à l’épreuve du concept”, this article is divided in three parts: “Variation on a binary theme: Frontier and Apogee then, Coda: Non repetition” (I), “Three variations on a single concept: Presence” (II), “Variation on a binary theme: Chance and Determinism” (III). The conclusion is entitled “Variation of the variation – Introduction to the concept of creation”. This article is a summary of a French book published in 2012, L’oeuvre musicale contemporaine à l’épreuve du concept.

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Stéphane de Gérando. Presence and absence of creation /3icar IcarEditions. 2012. ⟨hal-02943728⟩