The Skin of Spectral Time in Grisey's Le Noir de l’Étoile

Exarchos, Dimitris. 2018. The Skin of Spectral Time in Grisey's Le Noir de l’Étoile. Twentieth-Century Music, 15(1), ISSN 1478-5722 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

Following the aesthetics of pure continuity in the late 1970s, Grisey moved on to compose for unpitched percussion in Tempus ex Machina, focusing on pure rhythm. Shortly afterwards he elaborated on his theory of temporality in a talk and article of the same title; one decade later, he included Tempus as the first movement of Le Noir de l’Étoile. Grisey insisted on the significance of the perception of musical time, of the skin of time – as opposed to its skeleton or flesh. This article puts forward an interpretation of Grisey's thinking of temporality, drawing on concepts from French philosophy. It further provides an analysis of two sections of Le Noir, tracing these concepts in the structuring of musical time, with a view to providing a possible direction towards a re-definition of spectral time.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572218000051

Keywords:

Grisey, Bergson, Deleuze, Nancy, Lochhead, Temporality

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Music > Contemporary Music Research Unit

Dates:

DateEvent
October 2017Accepted
26 April 2018Published Online

Item ID:

21779

Date Deposited:

06 Oct 2017 10:50

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2018 13:57

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/21779

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