Aurel Stroe – Dominants of Musical Thought (90 years since birth)
Aurel Stroe – Dominants of Musical Thought (90 years since birth)

Author(s): Petruţa-Maria Coroiu (Măniuţ)
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Editura ARTES
Keywords: modernity; dynamic; chaos; ontology; catastrophe;
Summary/Abstract: Aurel Stroe, one of the greatest post-Enescian Romanian composers, is also a master of putting into words the metabolism of the great axiological ideas of humanity. At his 90th birth anniversary, given the originality of his discourse and his system of thought, Aurel Stroe needs an analytical synthesis of his entire vision of sound art (not just of his compositional system). Articulated under the sign of interdisciplinarity, his streams of ideas are so consistent that they draw their energy from different spheres of human culture, supporting a dramaturgy of creation that proposes incommensurable models juxtaposed within the same work. The morphogenetic music (born from the translation of the great mathematical theories of time into sound art), the composition with several tuning systems or within which immeasurable cultural dominants are confronted, give rise to a type of work of art that faces the same main difficulty as every valuable creation: sustaining its unity (which inevitably, breaks down, endangering its very quality). This paper offers some of the strategies the composer harnesses to handle his musical material, under the conditions of an extreme semantic difficulty: that of the expressive stabilization of the work in the imbalanced context caused by the coexistence of incommensurable elements. In this framework, other favorite topics are: the ontology of the work of art (and its sufferings in the modern context), the reflection of the theories of bifurcations, fractals and the chaos theory in sound art, the application of thermodynamic principles in the sound compositional space. The result of such strategies is dramatic, catastrophic, collapsing structures that propose unpredictable dynamics. A theoretician without equal, deeply knowledgeable of the great musical systems, he saw them as sound expressions with universal consequences, of great magnitude.

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