Makis Solomos (born 1962) a Franco-Greek
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
specialising in
contemporary music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...
and particularly in the work of
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde ...
. He is also one of the specialists of
Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno ( , ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer.
He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critica ...
's thought. His work focuses on the issue of sound ecology and decay. He has published articles and books and participates in meetings and symposia. In 2005, he also participated in the creation of the magazine "Filigranes" which aims to broaden the field of musicology.
Biography
Makis Solomos has lived in Paris since 1980. He studied
musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...
with
Yoshihisa Taira
was a Japanese-born French composer.
Biography
Yoshihisa Taïra was born in Tokyo in 1937. Initially, he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He arrived in France in 1966 where he then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his ...
and
Sergio Ortega and later studied musicology at the
Paris-Sorbonne University
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. He taught at the
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III
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People
Christianity
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until 2010. He is a professor at the
université Paris VIII and a junior member of the
institut universitaire de France
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.
Research areas
In his writings, Makis Solomos tries to marry the analytical, historical and hermeneutical approaches. In addition to his writings on the work of Xenakis, his research focuses on aspects of recent music (
Webern
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and stead ...
,
Varèse,
Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music.
Born in Mon ...
,
Criton,
Vaggione, Di Scipio,
spectral music
Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition.
Definition
Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often informe ...
,
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
,
popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Fun ...
, and in particular the aesthetic questions from a perspective inspired by the philosophical thought of Adorno). Defending a radical modernist aesthetic approach to contemporary music, he particularly criticizes the aesthetics that he considers conservative in particular
neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...
and
postmodernism
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or Rhetorical modes, mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by philosophical skepticism, skepticis ...
,
[Makis Solomos ''Néoclassicisme et postmodernisme : deux antimodernismes'', revue Musurgia, Paris, Editions Eska, 1998, Volume V, No 3/4, (pp. 91-107)] (postmodernism being clearly in modernity). He remains relatively distant from the aesthetics known as "moderate modernists".
He is also positioned against historicism, that is to say, a linear reading of the history of music, which consists in considering the evolution of aesthetics only in a uniform sense, relying only on the milestones that constitute the great names of history (the "winners" to use Solomos' term). He defends the idea that musical evolution throughout history is a complex and multifaceted movement of different conceptions and aesthetics.
His recent work has focused on themes such as the emergence of sound, sound ecology and decay, for which he has devoted books, articles or papers to symposiums.
Bibliography
* ''Le devenir du matériau musical au XXe siècle'', in
SOULEZ Antonia, SCHMITZ François, SEBESTIK Jan (ed)., Musique, rationalité, : L'harmonie, du monde au matériau, Cahiers de philosophie du (No 3), Paris, L’Harmattan, 1998; (pp. 137–151)
* ''Notes sur la spatialisation de la musique et l'émergence du son'', in GENEVOIS Hugues, ORLAREY Yann (ed)., Le son et l'espace, Lyon, Aléas, 1998; (pp. 105–125). (Musique et Sciences).
* ''Schaeffer phénoménologue'', in Ouïr, entendre, écouter, comprendre après Schaeffer, Paris, Buchet-Chastel / INA, 1999, (pp. 53–68) (Bibliothèque de Recherche Musicale).
* ''Le ‘Savant’ et le ‘Populaire‘, le postmodernisme et la mondialisation'', in Musurgia, vol. IX/1, Le ''Savant'' et le ''Populaire'', 2002.
* ''Analyse et idéologie chez Xenakis'', in BARDEZ Jean-Michel (ed). Analyse et création musicales, Colloque (1995, Montpellier), Paris,
L’Harmattan
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, 2001, (pp. 87–100) (Musique et Musicologie).
* ''Du projet bartokien au son : L’évolution du jeune Xenakis'', in SOLOMOS, Makis (ed.), Présences de Iannis Xenakis, colloque (1998, Paris), Paris, CDMC, 2001.
* ''De la musique contemporaine à la société'', in Filigrane, No 1, Musicologies ?, 2005, (pp. 49–61)
* ''Notes pour une comparaison des paradigmes technologiques des musiques électroniques savantes et populaires'', in BARBANTI Roberto, LYNCH Enrique, PARDO Carmen, SOLOMOS Makis (ed.), ''Musiques, arts et technologies : Pour une approche critique'', symposium (2000, Montpellier, Barcelone), Paris, L’Harmattan, 2004, (pp. 281–290) (Musique Philosophie).
* ''Iannis Xenakis'', Mercues, PO Editions, 1996; (updated in 2004)
* ''Formel / Informel'' in SOLOMOS, Makis, SOULEZ, Antonia, VAGGIONE, Horacio, Formel Informel : Musique – Philosophie, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2003. His article ''De l'apollinien et du dionysiaque dans les écrits de Xenakis'' can be found in SOLOMOS, Makis, SOULEZ, Antonia, VAGGIONE, Horacio, Formel Informel : Musique – Philosophie, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2003, (pp. 49–90) (Musique Philosophie).
* ''L’espace : musique-philosophie'' (with Jean-Marc Chouvel: Paris, l’Harmattan, 1998),
* ''La métaphore lumineuse. Xenakis-Grisey'' (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003)
* ''Musiques, arts, technologies. Pour une approche critique / Music, arts and technologies. Towards a critical approach / Musicas, artes y tecnologías. Por una aproximacion critica'' (avec Roberto Barbanti et Carmen Pardo: Paris, l’Harmattan, 2004)
* ''Horacio Vaggione: Composition theory'' (Contemporary Music Review vol 24 part 4+5)
* Makis Solomos(éd),'' Espaces composables : essais sur la musique et la pensée musicale d'Horacio Vaggione'', Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007, (ouvrage reprenant en grande partie en version française les textes de "''Horacio Vaggione: Composition theory'')
* ''Rythme, temps et émergence'' in ''Rythmes de l'homme, rythmes du monde, Séminaire de l'
École normale supérieure
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de la rue d'Ulm 2006-2008'', under the direction of Christian Doumet and Aliocha Wald Lasowski,
Éditions Hermann
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''Éléments de mathématique''
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, 2010
References
External links
Makis SOLOMOSon Centre National de Création musicale
Makis Solomoson Université Paris 8
Makis Solomos websiteon Université Mointpellier 3
on
France Culture
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Makis Solomoson Symétrie
on CAIRN
Makis Solomos, ''De la musique au son. L’émergence du son dans la musique des xxe-xxie siècles''on Transatlantica
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20th-century French musicologists
21st-century French musicologists
French music educators
Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
1962 births
Greek emigrants to France
Living people
People from Athens