Spectralism – interface between the creations of Gérard Grisey and Fred Popovici. Interferences, coincidences

Abstract

Spectralism is one of the most interesting and topical tendencies in contemporary composing. All processes that take place within the sound are resources for prospecting, investigating, and then generating the poetics of sound composition. The spectral music also represents a counterweight to what has been called Structuralism or Integral Serialism in music since the ’ '50s. This study discusses the aesthetic product of spectral music like a return to nature, archetypes, and the intrinsic need to restore the image to the sound, but also the composers who imposed this conduct in their creation strategy. Gerard Grisey considered the father of spectralism, and Fred Popovici, the Romanian composer who plunges beyond the intimacy of sound and projects its inner processes into space, will be considered in parallel.