Music and Imaginary World Research Papers (original) (raw)

This is the starting point of the project Unearthing Imaginary Music, carried out by Asociația Jumătatea Plină, now, in the summer of 2020, a year of great crisis, an unexpected crisis caused by the emergence and spread of the coronavirus... more

This is the starting point of the project Unearthing Imaginary Music, carried out by Asociația Jumătatea Plină, now, in the summer of 2020, a year of great crisis, an unexpected crisis caused by the emergence and spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), in which our priorities and means of communication have been changing. In which our personal life is changing, perhaps determining, in the future, substantial changes in our collective existence. In this context, the performing arts are gravely affected, as physical distancing forces us either to withdraw and await return to normality, or to find new artforms and new means of transmitting. We recalled in this context the proposal composer Octavian Nemescu made in the '70s of the past century – that of opening towards imaginary music.
It greatly interested me to launch the challenge of conceiving imaginary music scores to other academic ally trained composers (Corneliu Dan Georgescu, Diana Rotaru, Maia Ciobanu, Diana Gheorghiu, Sabina Ulubeanu, Gabriel Mălăncioiu, Darie Nemeș Bota, Mihaela Vosganian, Sorin Lerescu, Constantin Basica) and to myself, in order to see how each "pours" their own substance, ingrained by their aesthetic direction, style and visions, in this new manner of musical communication. The scores have been gathered in this collection dedicated to Octavian Nemescu, bearing the (historical?) marks of the year 2020.