Jean Detheux's Posts - The Visual Music Village

10 years already!

2017-11-04T19:03:44.000Z

November 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of the start of my collaboration with the immense Italian harpsichordist Paola Erdas.

We have made quite a collection of movies together since, and we are likely to do live concerts very soon, in Trieste, Italy.

Several of our movies have been selected by various festivals, I had the privilege to see some of them on the big screen, always a treat.

Here is our very first movie, still one of my favourites, and the movie amongst my many which receives the most visits on Vimeo: La Folia

Here are a few frames puled from that movie, there’s an album with more here.

Master Baffler: How Philip Guston Gave Form to Doubt

2017-10-27T17:14:38.000Z

“Paul Valery once said that a bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning,” Philip Guston told an interviewer in 1966, adding, “In a painting in which this is a room, this is a chair, this is a head, the imagery does not exist — it vanishes into recognition…. I want my work to include more.”

Read the full article here.

Drawing, a fast disappearing art form.

2016-07-17T20:00:00.000Z

My latest article has recently been published by the Society for Animation Studies, it was also printed in the Melbourne International Animation Festival catalogue which was held a few weeks ago.

It examines important “steps” in the genesis of an image, and it offers avenues to explore to people who either have approached drawing superficially, or only know the “procedural" aspect of digital art.

It also touches on an essential distinction beetween two kinds of abstraction: the “fabricated” type (lots of that around), and the one that takes its source in one’s experience of "the real," an abstraction that is revealed when one can "see without knowing” (“what do I see before knowing what it is I am looking at?”).

I will explore those two types of abstraction more in depth in another paper, but for now here’s the one on “Black & white, the most direct way to making the visible visible."

New album on Vimeo: "Mostly with piano(s) (and pianists)"

2016-04-13T17:00:00.000Z

Here’s a collection of favourite pieces of mine done in collaboration with some remarkable musicians, pianists, yes, but most of them composers as well: Mostly with piano(s) (and pianists)…

Can (should) Animation reach beyond the “entertainment dependency?”

2015-02-19T15:13:30.000Z

Here’s my third blog entry at Animation Studies, it has a lot to do with the place of Visual Music (and Experimental/Abstract Animation) in the world of Animation festivals: http://blog.animationstudies.org/?p=1052…

“Unless it grows out of yourself, no knowledge is really yours, it is only a borrowed plumage.” (D.T. Suzuki)

2014-02-13T14:25:30.000Z

Here's an article that points to something really basic, too often overlooked:

"James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and “Visual Karaoke.”