Qu' est-ce qu' un "musicien" ? quelqu' un qui manipule des samples sur son pc en est-il un

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Q: In addition to the instruments used, your performances seem very connected to ritual elements (14, 15). Do you have a particular interest or linkage with some religious tradition or ethnic heritage?

I felt so lonely in the Western contemporary music scene. It's very cold, analytical and so it's not existential. It's atheistic, especially the early contemporary music that I've heard, like some Stockhausen and post-Webern music. I felt the desire to bring a certain kind of religious ritual into it without the religious domain. I come from a Jewish religious background. I like the smell of my Kretek Indonesian cigarettes. I like to wear a special uniform when I perform: I wear a hat, I put out many candles, I decorate the instruments. For me, it's like a condiment where music or any kind of performances could be done. I like to make it sacred, which means that it's not necessarily Christian, nor Jewish or Hindu. It only resembles aspects of primitive people when they make any situation connected with the sacred. It's not particularly ethnically related to any culture or religious tradition because I like them all.

I like the (use of) candles in all kind of cultures. I like flowers when they're used in sacred ceremonies. I like incense or things that smell special in rituals. I like the clothing used for rituals and I like all the special eating or drinking used as part of ceremonies. When I play certain piano pieces of mine, I like to have my cognac or sometimes, certain whiskies or some wine- they are very important. Some people ask me "What does this have do with Western contemporary music?" Well, I want another kind of culture and departing that, I'm inventing it. I have the right to change it! I found universities to be very cold kind of places, where the people only perform music and everybody is serious and there is no alcohol and it's no fun and nobody gets excited. You can't scream… I found it too boring and so I created a world with my animals, my whiskies, my alcohols, my friends and my music.

I don't see how the form is more important. It's certainly more about sensual and physical and visceral, and for me, it touches that thing ethnic and religious and contemporary art and music can't. It doesn't have this power.

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C est quoi pour toi la musique "actuelle"?

Hors sujet : earl KLUGH,tres bon , il a joué avec bob james"