However, there are cases in which distortion is used to create coherence and consistence. The general believe is that symmetry organizes (A-B-A, mirror forms, Fibonacci series and fractals are some of the known cases). However, I have seen some cases in music in which organization is not reducible to any known kind of symmetry. In some cases I agree that this lack of organization is an imperfection. However, there are a few cases in which this imperfection is the very law that gives coherence to the work. Distortion, in these cases, organizes. Why? How it works?
Perhaps we
should consider other kinds of relations. I will mention three cases. One: some
past references might distort the meaning of what you are listening to. Two:
perhaps the formal distortion will absorb the sound material irregularity, and
in this case distortion is a kind of adjustment. Three: perhaps the distortion will
organize only in the future!!! I mean, the action, thought or feeling that a
set of musical objects is able to produce distorts all the set towards a final
state. The work we listen to is not the final state but it points to it. This
pointing organizes, and when we grasp this point we distort the sound objects
and give to them a new meaning. Case Two is the easiest to find. Case One is a
kind of post-modernism. Case Three… this one is really new, and I have tried it
in some of my works, as in Da Vinci,
an electroacoustic work I composed this year. I will comment on that in the
future.
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