The Image’s Resonance in the Musical Composition: A Polyphonic Survey
By mixing the words of seven contemporary composers (Brasset, Calon, Fano, Lepage, Lizée, Lussier, Piché), this survey questions the interactions between the visual movements and the sound fluctuations, the stakes of the musical composition for the image, the singular characteristics of the audiovisual perception and the effects of the image (material or mental) on the process of composition. By listening to these composers describing their approach of creation, we discover that the image can be an energy, a concrete material, a substratum, a resultant of the musical listening, a historic artefact, a score, a narrative vector, one stratum in a multimedia complex...