Durand: Musica Fictiva

In this album, Joël-François Durand adopts a variation of the medieval concept of ‘musica ficta’: this refers to the practice of raising or lowering certain notes when singing or playing, even though this is not written in the score. In the present works, he explores the consequences of ‘deviant’ notes in different ensembles and thus under completely different conditions, namely how tonal modulations create beats that create less of a microtonal language, but rather explore their musical potential, such as how they create interference patterns that produce distinct rhythmic pulsations.