Such a wonderful piece, Lucie! Cool to learn more about what’s behind Chiyoko’s music. Those gradient drawings are a fascinating way to compose. Gave me some ideas around story craft. Her performance at Orgelpark did force me to slow down to become transported into the sonic landscape.
thank you for writing back, gosh: i love your comment so much.
i don't have a clear answer for you but here are some personal reflections that come to mind:
1) 10 years ago, i (very reluctantly) went to an experimental music concert, which was supposed to have this algorithmic something in it. i wasn't into that at all back then and i didn't buy the discourse around "intellectual/complex music" at all. i still went. i didn't understand how the music was composed but felt a profound beauty that i hadn't experienced before. but you know, i was convinced this wasn't my world, that i wasn't ever gonna be able to fully appreciate it. i pushed aside that concert for a long while. a few years later, the memory of that night came back to me, with its magic, and insistently. one day, i took my courage and decided to listen to the pieces again and read about how they had been made. not only did the emotion i had felt during the concert came back, but the finding out of how the piece was made blew my mind. it only deepened my experience of the pieces, and eventually gave me the permission to make music in my own terms, perhaps with a bit of algorithmic touch, but mostly from the heart.
2) brief answer: yes, i think any kind of music, experimental or not, may resonate to the untrained ears. but the appreciation/resonance with a piece may not be immediate at all: it can take years to process and blossom (or not), and lead you where you're support to be led. ( + it's very cultural too: what was experimental 50 years ago is super normal for our ears today).
3) your question allows me to reflect on the reason why i'm writing/engaged here. i think there is so much value in connecting what is "experimental" to the individuals who have the courage "experiment", not to perpetuate an elitist gaze on them but the opposite. those people are just like you and i, normal and accessible, with their strange, beautiful, imperfect ways of expressing their sensitivities. if anything, we can learn to relate/resonance with and feel inspired by these individuals, their commitment, their process, their ethics and courage to put "alien" stuff out there.
that was a long blurb, curious to hear if you have more thoughts on that
Such a wonderful piece, Lucie! Cool to learn more about what’s behind Chiyoko’s music. Those gradient drawings are a fascinating way to compose. Gave me some ideas around story craft. Her performance at Orgelpark did force me to slow down to become transported into the sonic landscape.
aaaah so happy that gave you some inspiration for your own work and that it resonated with your experience! + hope you're well ;)
Lucie,
It is experimental, and I appreciate the math and aleatory nature of it, but to the untrained ear and mind, do you think it might resonate?
hi dear JJ,
thank you for writing back, gosh: i love your comment so much.
i don't have a clear answer for you but here are some personal reflections that come to mind:
1) 10 years ago, i (very reluctantly) went to an experimental music concert, which was supposed to have this algorithmic something in it. i wasn't into that at all back then and i didn't buy the discourse around "intellectual/complex music" at all. i still went. i didn't understand how the music was composed but felt a profound beauty that i hadn't experienced before. but you know, i was convinced this wasn't my world, that i wasn't ever gonna be able to fully appreciate it. i pushed aside that concert for a long while. a few years later, the memory of that night came back to me, with its magic, and insistently. one day, i took my courage and decided to listen to the pieces again and read about how they had been made. not only did the emotion i had felt during the concert came back, but the finding out of how the piece was made blew my mind. it only deepened my experience of the pieces, and eventually gave me the permission to make music in my own terms, perhaps with a bit of algorithmic touch, but mostly from the heart.
2) brief answer: yes, i think any kind of music, experimental or not, may resonate to the untrained ears. but the appreciation/resonance with a piece may not be immediate at all: it can take years to process and blossom (or not), and lead you where you're support to be led. ( + it's very cultural too: what was experimental 50 years ago is super normal for our ears today).
3) your question allows me to reflect on the reason why i'm writing/engaged here. i think there is so much value in connecting what is "experimental" to the individuals who have the courage "experiment", not to perpetuate an elitist gaze on them but the opposite. those people are just like you and i, normal and accessible, with their strange, beautiful, imperfect ways of expressing their sensitivities. if anything, we can learn to relate/resonance with and feel inspired by these individuals, their commitment, their process, their ethics and courage to put "alien" stuff out there.
that was a long blurb, curious to hear if you have more thoughts on that