ToWAMoFM/01/01 Energy/02 Friction-Granulation
Friction-Granulation
- Friction is raw energy between two surfaces that meet
- It's a gestural model, a model of movement
- It's a mental representation of the gesture based on what we already know / see
- The idea is to move from a sliding state to a stop, to explore all the states, the unstable balances (the Grains) between these two poles
- There's a direct relationship between intention, gesture, and the resulting sounds
- The deep, emotional meaning is in the gesture: for the musician as well as the dancer, painter, or sculptor, emotion is transmitted through the quality and intense experience of physical gestures that express feeling
Working Method
- This is a global model, we think of it more as an improvised sequence-game. We let ourselves be guided by gesture and listening through headphones. The hand-ear couple finds its full justification in this energetic model of Friction
- Recording Sound Bodys in direct relationship with the human body
- The Mic is part of the Instrument (or part of how you hold the Instrument)
- Moving from smooth to Granulation and to point-like
- The granular is a type of energy that results from effort:
- The person listening will feel it, with their own body, because they have a Proprio-Perceptive knowledge of the same movements
- Hold things back, let them go
Commentary
- Friction generates a line-point relationship (see Person/Paul Klee)
- The dynamics of the line, the dynamics of the point, and everything in between
- moving from one state to another of the same phenomenon
- the line as the state of rest, the release of the point, the iterative point
- My Note
- the difference between line and point is Bouba Kiki
- Caliber or size of points between each other, caliber or size of lines between each other
- Dynamics of movement, which isn't necessarily "straight"
- Friction is the energy that most allows the idea of movement to come through
- It's the most primary, most primitive energy, closest to children between 0 and 2 years old
- The factor of speed and the typological criterion of matter Grain come into play as perceptual variations of Friction, as does the criterion of maintenance (iterative): maintenance of the sound cut up and repeated
Sound Examples
Bibliography
- Person/Jean Piaget's theory: http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/teaching/UVLibre/0001/bin66/textes/theoa.htm
- Bayle, F. 1993 musique acousmatique "propositions...positions", Paris : Buchet/Chastel p.17
- Klee, P. 1968 Théorie de l'art moderne, Genève : Denoël-Gonthier