These scores were written a string quartet to be recorded in advance of the main studio session of the album and as such, they function as a preparation for The composition process involved studies in Yusef Lateef's Repository Of Scales And Melodic Patterns (chapters on Chinese twelve tone scales (interpolation) and tripple diminished patterns) and Ann Southam's solo piano work "Simple Lines Of Inquiry". Along with this both theoretical and score-oriented research, I also investigated how to interweave the concepts of the meridian(s) as both geographic-cartographic and bodily-energetic phenoma, into the sturcture and sonic life of the scores. Still well aware, that these scores were preparatory grounds from which to unfold the full work. In this paragraph of the essay released as part of the album, I explain the composing process more in detail.
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“Meridiana: Lines toward a non-local Alchemy” investigates the line as a sonic, textual and visual phenomenon. Taking off from the four literary voices: the Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and the Chinese Taoists Lü Yan (796 C.E.) and Sun Buer (1119–1182 C.E.), a multitude of meanings are interwoven in a rich network of musical, textual and graphic lines. The line as a basic concept is emphasized by the first word of the title, Meridiana (plural for meridian), which has terminological roots in both the East and the West. In Western terminology, it denotes one geographical line connecting the North and South Pole. In the East, originating from ancient China, meridians (经络) are energy pathways of the body (both human and non-human), which connect internal organs and a number of vital points in a neurological network. The meeting between these two interpretations of a "meridian", between the geo-physical and sub-physical, between East and West, are the cornerstones of the project, which intention is to weave together the various meanings and emphases of meridian, while at the same time unfolding an expanding an intersection of lines: sonic lines, textual lines, graphic lines.
- Søren Kjærgaard - Meridiana: Lines Toward a Non-local Alchemy - 2023
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