Timmy Schenk

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Through this site I invite you to discover my work as a composer and musician... between electronic and instrumental, contemporary and rock music.

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About my work...

"Frequency-based composition", more than "spectral music", perfectly defines my way of working. Sounds, and therefore spectra, are always central in my compositions. With help of different processes, I generate a harmonic language based on consonance and dissonance, which is not built according to harmonic functions like chord sequences, but where each note, regarding its frequency and the treatment which is applied, can generate one or more other notes.

I try to use this processes in a recurring way, so that they can induce a kind of logic in my pieces which, even if it is not necessarily describable, is at least perceptible. Subsequently, I always allow myself the reorganization and restructuring of the results given by them according to my ear, to what I like. Thus intuition is always present in my creative work: whether in the development of basic processes, or in the sculpture of material generated by them.

Lorsque l’on tente de décrire sa propre musique, on a souvent tendance à̀ se cacher derrière des explications théoriques, non pas parce-que l’aspect esthétique ou poétique de notre musique est fondamentalement ineffable mais qu’il y a, selon moi, à ce sujet souvent beaucoup moins à dire, et qu’il n’est pas aisé d’y trouver les bons mots. C’est pourquoi je souhaite proposer à la suite des explications théoriques précédentes une approche poétique, sous forme d’une métaphore décrivant à mes yeux un moment musical réussi :

Imagine the twilight in an arctic region, you see the ocean from the coast. The sun in the distance melts into the horizon, but near you strong winds form a swell and move clouds of snow on the coast. A light show emerges when the sunbeams meet the waves or snowclouds, then the light disappears when a trough appears in the ocean or the wind stops blowing. When all seems calm, blocks of ice break off the coast and shatter the silence in a heavy roar, and trigger new waves coming one last time to play with the sunbeams before it sinks into the horizon, giving way to cold and white reflections emitted by the sky on an ocean now of a frozen and soothing calm.