Always already complex

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani uses the idea of "always already complex" to reject any pure origin: a thing is what it is only when several elements constitute it1. His recurring image is the river, which has no single or univocal source: from the origin, the real is complex2. He describes the source of a river as a cone of reception, which gathers multiple inflows rather than springing from a single point. He applies this pattern to man, who is born from the coalescence of several centres3. He also applies it to jazz, to which he returns from 2016 to 2020. For him, jazz has no univocal origin: it is impure, made of mixtures4. He sees in it the collision of African rhythm and the Protestant chorale, then that of the standards and the polka5. In these passages, complexity does not come after an initial simplicity: it is there from the start.

1. 1Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 26:36
2. 2#3.5 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:00:48
3. 3#4 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...13 Nov 2020 · 31:09
4. 4Musicosophie 6. La Variation Jazz... de Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 38:48
5. 5Musicosophie 6. La Variation Jazz... de Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 1:08:10

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