Le visuel et le sonore en matière de composition musicale : un rapport homologue
Is it possible to treat visual material, in particular theatre, physical gestures, video and dance, as an equal element to sound in musical composition? What strategies are available to us to incorporate, in a relevant way, image and sound? What does the interaction between sound and visual material in the creation and the performance of a musical piece imply? Guided by these questions, I composed seven pieces as part of my Masters, between September 2014 and August 2016. This paper describes the main stages of these pieces and their composition process, which aimed to find solutions and strategies for a homologous relationship between the visual and the sound in the process of musical creation. The first chapter draws a portrait of artists and composers who worked on the relationship between sound and visual. Some strategies of these composers were used during the process of creating a musical composition capable of integrating the visual as an essential element. The second chapter presents the pieces which I have investigated the link between music and video, gesture and dance. The third chapter addresses a series of four pieces composed for the purpose of expressing, through the relation between music and staging, issues related to our daily life. Finally, the last chapter presents conclusions that emerged as a result of my writing process and, in some cases as a result of the performance of the parts.
Collaboration Interaction visual and sound Interdisciplinary pieces