...To Phrase the World: Continuity, Gesture and Energy in the Musical Work
In this article, composer Philippe Leroux begins by looking at the relationship between continuity, sound and gesture. He goes on to explore how the energetic traces of these gestures are transformed into gestural substitutes, and the way in which the act of listening appeals to the gestures of sound production or to physical or psychic virtual gestures. He then considers in how the concept of energetic phrasing functions as a way to combine all of these notions, at once from the point of view of listening and composition. This leads the author to redefine the musical work as a transitional space in which the action of relating sound events to each other supplants the classical notion of development by extension and proliferation of a fundamental idea.