It might take three hours to make one minute of music. In the video, we experience the borderland in-between the composition process and the finished music. The notes appear in the head of the artist as fragments, gestures are being tried out. We follow the pencil and the thoughts that constitute the act of creation. Could we consider the composition process itself an aesthetic object?

Jonatan Sersam
Sersam’s musical voyage starts in the encounter between rapid, ruthless transformation and acoustic situations that in various ways questions the idea of progression or process. He’s concerned with narration, but not in a programmatic or dramaturgical sense, but the ongoing internal narration within the musical medium. He is experimenting with narrative structures of music, drawing parallels and creating interconnections between contemporary dramatic thinking and the purely abstract flow and musical transformation of sound. Jonatan studied composition at the Malmö Academy of Music (Luca Francesconi), the Conservatory of Bologna and the Kunstuniversität in Graz (Beat Furrer).

Visit Jonatan Sersam’s artist page – jonatansersam.com

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