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Makis Solomos | |
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| Born | 1962 Athens, Greece |
| Education | Paris-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation | Musicologist |
Makis Solomos (born 1962) was a Franco-Greek musicologist who specialized in contemporary music and particularly in the work of Iannis Xenakis. He is also one of the specialists of Adorno's thought. His work focuses on the issue of sound ecology and decay. He has published articles and books and participates in meetings and symposia. In 2005, he also participated in the creation of the magazine "Filigranes" which aims to broaden the field of musicology.
Makis Solomos has been living in Paris since 1980. He studied musical composition with Yoshihisa Taira and Sergio Ortega and later studied musicology at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He taught at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III until 2010. He is a professor at the université Paris VIII and a junior member of the institut universitaire de France.
In his writings, Makis Solomos tries to combine the analytical, historical, and hermeneutical approaches. In addition to his writings on the work of Xenakis, his research focuses on aspects of recent music (Webern, Varèse, Boulez, Criton, Vaggione, Di Scipio, spectral music, electronic music, popular music, and in particular the aesthetic questions from a perspective inspired by the philosophical thought of Adorno). Defending a radical modernist aesthetic approach to contemporary music, he particularly criticises the aesthetics that he considers conservative in particular neoclassicism and postmodernism,[1] (postmodernism being clearly in modernity). He remains relatively distant from the aesthetics known as "moderate modernists".
He is also positioned against historicism, that is to say, a linear reading of the history of music, which consists in considering the evolution of aesthetics only in a uniform sense, relying only on the milestones that constitute the great names of history (the "winners" to use Solomos' term). He defends the idea that musical evolution throughout history is a complex and multifaceted movement of different conceptions and aesthetics.
His recent work has focused on themes such as the emergence of sound, sound ecology and decay, for which he has devoted books, articles or papers to symposiums.
