I was heavily influenced by the works of Xenakis and ‘Formalised music’ his book written in 1971. I began my own electroacoustic and diffusion journey as an undergraduate with ‘Formalism’ (1992) a piece I wrote for just 2 sound samples. It is made of cells of a graph of a star formation. x = y, 2x=y, 3x=y, x=2y, x=3y and the 3 retrograde and inversions. This star structure forms 2 sections of melody and their inversion and 2 sections of chords and their inversion. I also took each quarter of the star formation in isolation from the others, creating rising melodies and chords and falling melodies and chords. In music theory and aesthetics of music, formalism is the concept that a composition’s meaning is entirely determined by its form. I was not only thinking about Formalism but also Abstract art, Kandinsky painted a series of painting called ‘Sketch for Composition’, they were his ‘first attempts at colour music which really inaugerated what came to be known as ‘Abstract Art’.
