- Part of 'A topology of musical encounter' (summary) -
In the coming together of collectives around an individualistic dimension, also mixtures can occur, where the significance of the collective dimension resides in different personal levels of the collaborating musicians. As an example I consider to introduce Raphaella Danksagmuller, Nachson Rodriguea Pereira and OOKOI to collaborate with each other, on the basis of their relation to a notion of ‘music and eternity’. Nachson, in his position as frontsinger of the Portugese Synagoge, is responsible for the continuation of a tradition thousands of years old. In his case his cultural surrounding contains a strong notion of music and eternity which is connected to the contextualistics of his musical identity.
“The service has been described from action to action, and from week to week throughout the year in hundreds of pages with strict presciption of the texts and melodies that are used, in some are very minor possibilities of variation, but practically this is fixed for eternity.”
Raphaella presents us a beautiful personalistic approach to the association with the sound of the Duduk, the images it produces in the mind and how this influences her musical performance.
“For me the sound and melodies of the Duduk express eternity. When I hear the sound of the Duduk I immediately imagine endless landscapes. And this quality of the sound belongs to Armenia itself, where you see one mountain after another in an endless sequence.”
The acousmatic sound artists Harold Schellinx and Peter Mertens form the musical duo OOKOI. Eternity is a formal concept they explore by compositional means. Their musical perspective beholds eternity as a conceptualistic aspect of their musicpractice.
“Ookoi’s primary form of presentation are 24-hour, ever-changing soundstreams without beginning or end. They are continuously broadcast over the internet. These living audiosculptures are ‘fed’ by a growing collection of live-recordings. “
On the basis of our imaginary shared subject one is able to bring together a colourful ensemble. These highly diverse musicians all work with some notion of eternity as part of their musicpractice, but all situated in a different zone of the musical consciousness. One can think of many of these combinatory structures of individualistics to come up with creative and unforeseen connections between musicians.
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