An encounter in the city and its random effects created the coordinates for this piece. It made me interested in locating the tension between the human footprint in artistic creation and the immediate satisfaction, at any price, provided by algorithms.
In the context of listening to vinyl and an enticement to be immersed in an artist's work, the notes and silences resonate like echoes bordering the unsayable. This encounter also implies the dimension of loss: each listening is one less life for that vinyl record or one more life shared with others.
In a very different vein, there is a current phenomenon that manifests itself in many different guises in our epoch as the rejection of the unconscious and the "there is not". In the existence of music created by AI on multiple platforms, the algorithm stealthily conceals the intention of capturing the public and of satisfying every musical taste by finding the perfect match.
Jean-Pierre Deffieux1 emphasises that the denial of the incommensurability between signifier and jouissance in the contemporary world indicates a denial of the unconscious and principally translates into the fierce determination to make the sexual relation exist by any means. This determination also infiltrates the artistic and creative processes in its attempt to erase the singular. It is something I am spotlighting.
But we know that jouissance cannot be generalised. The unspeakable that an artist borders on, what is out of tune in each speaking being, which in turn echoes in another singularity, summons the most vivid of the artistic and cultural fabric, where the dissonant can be located as the driving force of the weft.
These melodies created by AI would be among the many objects of surplus-enjoyment, products of the market and science, that attempt to make us believe in the sexual relation.
J.-A. Miller, referring to the real of the non-relation, mentions the real of the modality of the encounter: contingency. It is up to us to deal with this contingency of the real. We can only come to terms with it, that is, use invention and reinvention without any fatalism.2
Sustaining what escapes meaning and what is out of tune in each speaking being provides coordinates for a singular invention in the face of the impossibility of the sexual relation. Without aspiring to an idea of completeness in a work, the dissonance of an aphorism could be key to its reinvention.
[1] Deffieux, J. P., "Making the Sexual Relation Exist," text presented at the end of WAP Congress 2024 as an introduction to the theme of the next Congress. Available online: CongresAMP.
[2] Miller, J.-A., Todo el mundo es loco, Buenos Aires, Paidós, 2023, p. 175. Unpublished in English.
