Frederic D'Haene

The Belgian avant-garde composer Frederic D’haene (o 1961) calls his own composition technique ‘paradoxophony’. He considers the coexistence of different musical systems (both in technical and cultural terms) as a positive response to the dissolution of a common ground (such as tonal syntax). Rather than building a new musical language from scratch, he searches for elements from all kinds of backgrounds that can work together in a mutually reinforcing way. The essence of his composition technique is the combination of two or more musical worlds in which none takes control over the other. Music with silent aitake’s is a splendid example of his technique.