About Double CD SNEEUW
This double album is a photograph of my music.
It is a photo which represents my different creative areas well. I have chosen the pieces that are the most representative of my music, from computer music to my repetitive music through a conceptual piece like Wagner Express.
There are pieces for solo instrument, for chamber orchestra, for computer or for tape.
I also designed this album as an installation, not a sound installation but a musical installation, often by defining a geographical space in time, such as a piece for 4 pianos for example, or 4 cellos or 4 organs...that is, 4 points in space. However this is no longer the street or a modern art centre, but musical time.
Even so, writing in my head for 4 pianos is still like making an installation in an art gallery for me.
I imagine white walls, lighting, a floor, a space to fill with 4 black lacquered pianos.... I hear the music that unfolds in this space, which also becomes time. Very soon I imagine 3 Bluthners controlled by a computer and a 4th piano played live by Veronique, or 3 hologram cellists and the live cellist : Jean- Michel !
It is a poetic rendition of my artistic thinking about minimal art.
It is also a way of questioning musical time, as the white square on a white background can be, but in its two-dimensional space. This is why the 2nd title of the album is "sneeuw", which means “snow” in Dutch, hence the white, and there is also a curve in the phonetics of this word which corresponds to the instrumental gesture, to movement in time.
In these pieces that I have chosen, I often make reference to plastic organisational principles (pop art, minimal art, land art, conceptual art, abstract painting) but also to architecture and sculpture.
These are in fact the foundations of my musical creation.
It is an album that makes reference to art but is also a nod to the technologies that started with analog and go all the way to the computer with its different forms of sound synthesis - analog synthesis, Fm, sampling, physical modelling...etc.
As for the tools, they are as varied as vinyl records, tape recorders, floppy disks or hard disk recording, but always in counterpoint with the acoustic instruments, naturally. Humanity is at the centre of my approach.
My musical journey is also punctuated by poetry, which I project here in sound form, as if I were projecting words and emotions onto a musical stave.
Patrick Dorobisz - 2010