Eric Antoni
I am interested in discrete revolutions. The ones that have great effects but that don’t make much noise. The ones that come from the deepest confines of consciousness and return to such depths after having made one’s consciousness evolve decisively and irreversibly. A smile, a voice, can have a deeper impact than a big burst of laughter or the noise of a crowd. Many of these small gestures made greater contributions to the history of music than esthetic debates and disputes between ideologues. Essence travelled from consciousness to consciousness without a word. As it has been forever since the dawn of time.
These small revolutions have forged the way towards new experiences. They imply new fields of perception which are only rarely described by philosophers, musicologists and by the musicians themselves. This book aims to give a voice to the palpable experience we have when we play or listen to music. Such an experience includes our auditory perception, but it also implies other channels of perception that need to be located and named. This is important for the contemporary musical consciousness. Nowadays, the protagonists of contemporary music, through their clear words and their consciousnesses, must support things that used to happen without saying a word. Fair attitudes depend on adequate words; fruitful orientations depend on the fairness of the attitudes.
These small revolutions have forged the way towards new experiences. They imply new fields of perception which are only rarely described by philosophers, musicologists and by the musicians themselves. This book aims to give a voice to the palpable experience we have when we play or listen to music. Such an experience includes our auditory perception, but it also implies other channels of perception that need to be located and named. This is important for the contemporary musical consciousness. Nowadays, the protagonists of contemporary music, through their clear words and their consciousnesses, must support things that used to happen without saying a word. Fair attitudes depend on adequate words; fruitful orientations depend on the fairness of the attitudes.
Eric Antoni
I am interested in discrete revolutions. The ones that have great effects but that don’t make much noise. The ones that come from the deepest confines of consciousness and return to such depths after having made one’s consciousness evolve decisively and irreversibly. A smile, a voice, can have a deeper impact than a big burst of laughter or the noise of a crowd. Many of these small gestures made greater contributions to the history of music than esthetic debates and disputes between ideologues. Essence travelled from consciousness to consciousness without a word. As it has been forever since the dawn of time.
These small revolutions have forged the way towards new experiences. They imply new fields of perception which are only rarely described by philosophers, musicologists and by the musicians themselves. This book aims to give a voice to the palpable experience we have when we play or listen to music. Such an experience includes our auditory perception, but it also implies other channels of perception that need to be located and named. This is important for the contemporary musical consciousness. Nowadays, the protagonists of contemporary music, through their clear words and their consciousnesses, must support things that used to happen without saying a word. Fair attitudes depend on adequate words; fruitful orientations depend on the fairness of the attitudes.