Clara PONTY • Pianiste • Compositrice • Musical Imagination • L'Œil écoute, Ainsi Parlait l'Art
Musical Imagination par Clara Ponty Note by Gérard Pocquet Clara Ponty does not only compose music. She thinks through music. In this text she wrote herself, Clara Ponty sets into words what her fingers have been expressing on the keyboard since childhood. What she calls musical imagination is not a theory. It is a confession. A cartography of the interior. This text illuminates with rare precision everything we explored together in our conversation for Ainsi Parlait l'Art — the sonic colors, the meditation, the therapeutic process, the empathy. This deep conviction that music can be placed in the service of a collective harmony. To read it is to enter Clara Ponty's studio. Before the note. Before the silence. At the exact moment where everything begins. *** Musical Imagination par Clara Ponty “Music is,” Sidney Lanier writes, “Love in search of a word.” Imagination is a wondrous vehicle of this search, which invites us to breathe, to dream, and to be fully...
