Visual temptation in 21st century music
Jacques Amblard · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2021
With the new century began a metamorphosis of traditional art categories. The visual arts have been generalizing, even trivializing the use of sound in some of their works. A little later, especially since 2010, some composers, symmetrically, and as in a "counter-attack", have been designing installations, i.e. works of visual obedience. Nowadays, the visual aspect, in musical works, increasingly tends to develop. Czech composer Ondrej Adamek may have achieved his most notoriety by designing his Air machines, real musical sculptures. Pascal Dusapin recently completed his old fantasy of total art in a remarkable installation, Mille plateaux (2014). Do these examples betray the beginning of a fusion between the arts ? Or the end of each of them ?