doctorate research / brief primer
- ideas, methods and tools for using Messiaen’s harmonic, melodic and rhythmic systems within ‘jazz’ context(s)
- adéquation, intégration et redéploiement des modèles d’organisations harmoniques, rythmiques et mélodiques développés par Messiaen dans des contextes d’improvisation ‘jazz’
jazz is a many-faceted continuum, rooted in its own rich past and regenerating itself by integrating distillations of diverse languages, textures, colours, concepts and structures from different musical traditions and sources. I am trying in this doctorate research to follow this modus operandi: developing logical and intuitive methods for integrating Messiaen’s compositional systems into specific harmonic and melodic vocabularies (based mostly on the modes of limited transposition ) that can be assimilated and used by an improviser in a wide range of (organized) musical systems `
from closed circuit ( symmetric modes in isolation: generating organized (micro to macro) systems ‘impervious’ to tonal hierarchical organization ) to open circuit : generating tonal-sensitive organized (micro-to-macro) systems
adéquation : accord, mise en correspondance entre un objet et ce à quoi il est destiné (radiographie des MATL / correspondances entre systèmes)
adequacy : implementation ( MOLT x-rayed / matching features with other ‘systems’ )
intégration : processus d’attachement et de mise en relation ( circuit fermé / circuit ouvert )
integration : linking networks ( closed circuit and open circuit are permeable and interlocked )
redéploiement : réorganisation / modification / accroissement des échanges avec l’extérieur / nouveaux terrains d’exploration
spreading : new experimentation fields and outlooks / crossing borders