Hugues Dufourt: Der Sinn des Œuvres von Gérard Grisey (original) (raw)

There is evidence to suggest that Grisey’s music of the 1970s and early 80s can be described by the paradigm of progressive metamorphosis. In the late 1980s, however – after Espaces Acoustiques – Grisey sustained a crisis which he tried to surmount through studies in psychology, ecology and linguistics. This lead to a gradual transformation of his musical language and a new approach which could be called the »archaeology of sense«. By trying to define Grisey’s late style, Dufourt refers to G. W. Leibniz who associated the beauty of nature with fissures and unexpected intervals, with a delight intermingling the species.