Flöte (Morphogenesis: Homage to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari)

The affinity of Deleuzian thought for “aberrant” thoughts (according to David Lapoujade's expression), madness, irrationality, schizophrenia, is in agreement with its definition of philosophical thought as a “machine” for producing concepts . From there, we can see the generative creative approach by combinatorial sketching of deconstructivist architect Thom Mayne as heir to this approach by production of concepts. Applied to music, we obtain a form of extreme experimentation where tools of generative and algorithmic music, concepts from computer science, following the experiments of composers such as Iannis Xenakis, are used in an omnipresent and ubiquitous way and replace the language of traditional music sometimes even in the very writing of the music as in the case of graphic scores (e.g. John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Brian Ferneyhough, etc.). We seek to overcome the automatisms and aprioritisms of anthropocentric and historical-cultural creation by replacing them with or combining them with the aesthetics of machines: probabilities, random walks, broken rotations, interpolations and predictions, neural networks and latent spaces , differences and repetitions, transcriptions, assemblies, deconstruction/reconstruction, synthesis, algorithmics, emergence… We seek to create “aberrant” music.

Music as a language describing a process (interpretation, performance, decoding) where the semantic aspect (meaning of speech) has been erased, even when it serves as mimesis (e.g. Reverend Simeon Pease Cheney’s or Olivier Messiaen’s birdsongs, the noise of Italian futurism, the sound of machines with Georges Antheil, the orchestral transcriptions of software from the Orch* family developed at IRCAM such as Speakings by Jonathan Harvey or Jactations by Georges Aperghis, etc.) . Does the meaning of music follow a reverse processing: language would produce signification from meaning to perception, music from perception to meaning.

The piece dialogues with the Deleuzian concepts of difference/repetition.

This work makes heavy use of new algorithmic music technique such as neural networks and machine learning (GANs, VAEs, RNNs, CNNs, etc.).