Self-quotation in Personal Creation. The Journey from Musical Self-Portrait to #Selfie

Abstract

Music composition is an art that allows the creator to encapsulate her/his personality and conceptions in an abstract manner, as well as to mirror his whole being into the music, like in a self-portrait. A single musical theme may be both the key to the evolution of the compositional techniques and a witness to the inner self transformations that occur during one’s life. This study follows a theme and some of its iterations in other personal works over the last 25 years in order to capture the relation between life, creation and compositional traits, using the concepts of time and memory to explain the evolution of my own musical language.