Through the looking sound: Manifesto for a new pianism
Through the looking sound is a piano piece that performs as a manifesto for a new pianism: the transparency of the macro - and micro scale structures in music composition. The professional performer, in this case the pianist, invests in the execution of a piece a personal embodied energy, which cannot be part of a written code in the composition and thus cannot be preprogrammed digitally. In the actual context of multidisciplinary artistic creation, another artist from some other artistic field cannot read this specific layer, cannot even see it or hear it, and considers the composition as mere material. The post-crisis behaviour of such artists contains a kind of speed and desire to achieve everything immediately in a condensation and unification of roles (composer/ visual artist/ dramaturge/ curator/ performer in one). This behaviour exercises a new kind of violence very similar to the one that dominates the political and social reality and the various propagandas, ignoring and therefore annihilating the communication between the composer, the performer and the audience. This piece renders visible in its minimalistic pianism, the forgotten dialectic of the communication mentioned above, celebrating the freedom of the human creativity, that can only be the work of artists but in the same time be absolutely transparent as of its structure and making for the audience.
Exhibition:
Festival Européen, Arts Musiques et Technologies, Organisé par L’ACROE-ICA
15-19 October 2019
Salle Olivier Messiaen, Grenoble, France
Through the Looking Sound is an installation that introduces an artificial kaleidoscope as a conceptual tool for the reading of the score. Its basic concept is the use of musical notation as a mean of representation and artistic visualisation of music composition. This project in progress investigates the common vocabulary of gestures that trigger our senses in order to shape the compositional consciousness of the observer. The very same aleatoric character of the composition is materialised through the idea of the kaleidoscope and its interactive use by the viewer.
This manual kaleidoscope aims at the objectification of the process of composition itself. Its main objective is to enhance the understanding of the creative process by a wider public.
Concerts:
First Event: November 15, 2019
Program, Muted Blast (.2), meta.ξ
Benzaquen Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NY City, USA
Jana Luksts, piano
Second Event: March 9, 2020
Program, Worm Moon
The Piano Lunaire, Toronto, Canada
Jana Luksts, piano
