Post-Texture

single channel image, stereo audio
52 min 11 sec

The work takes the form of a lecture on POST-TEXTURE. POST-TEXTURE was conceived as a critique of homophony, the most prevalent form among musical textures. Homophony organizes musical elements within a rigid hierarchical system, distinguishing tonic and secondary tones, melody and accompaniment, and thematic and functional components.

Although systematized by the eighteenth century and challenged by early twentieth-century musical experiments, homophony continues to dominate everyday listening, as most contemporary music remains composed within its framework.

Through its critique of homophony, POST-TEXTURE reassesses the subjugating mindset concealed beneath the surface beauty of homophonic harmony. Tracing Western music history from organum to twentieth-century experimentation, POST-TEXTURE examines tendencies that move away from tonal organization — not only in music, but also across visual art and dance. It articulates two divergent trajectories of art, and by extension of human communication more broadly: practices that continue to “sing,” sustaining harmony and tonal coherence, and practices that refuse song, embracing experiment, noise, and non-hierarchical structures.