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Deleuze and music - A nomad seminar
Project directors: Pascale Criton, Jean-Marc Chouvel, Anne Sauvagnargues
Deleuze was interested in music as a philosopher, and, although music was not the subject of any specific book, it nonetheless held a privileged position in his thought. Just as he turned to the cinema, painting and literature in order to develop his philosophy, music presented him with the opportunity for a specific encounter with the operative domain peculiar to music. The effects of this in his work can be seen in, for example, the ideas of spatial and temporal multiplicities, of coding and transcoding, of thought processes through diagrams or affects.
In the course of these itinerant sessions, we propose a survey of Gilles Deleuze’s approach to music, a domain that has not yet been the subject of in-depth research in France. He did in fact very often refer to a broad corpus of contemporary music, from Berg to Messiaen, from Boulez, Berio, Xenakis to Cage and Steve Reich and moreover brought renewed consideration to sound signals as a whole and to their expression in space and time.
We shall examine, with reciprocal consideration, the impact of these tools of thought on research and on contemporary creation in music. We shall not only ask how Deleuze was inspired and instructed by the contemporary musical practice of his day, but also show how reading his texts affected creation, musicology, musical æsthetics, ethnomusicology, as well as techniques and technologies…
The seminar will make a contribution towards establishing the historical context, exploring the musical references, elucidating encounters with music in the philosopher’s work, but will also look at the interactions between music and philosophy, with the inflexions and tensions that arise from them for the music of today.