Mouquets best known work is his Sonata for Flute and Piano; "La Flute de Pan." He taught at the Conservatoire de Paris in the early 1900s as professor of harmony. Late romantic and impressionist composers were his main creative influences. Titles: * Pan et les Bergers * Pan et les Oiseaux * Pan et les Nymphes
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Sounding the ImperceptibleBy StreetlightReaderIn what ways can digital art - and especially sonic digital art - put us in touch with the currents that run below the thresholds of perception; the furtive intensities that squirrel away in the viscera of our bodies? Such is the question that guides Eleni Ikoniadous little book on The Rhythmic Event; one that attends to the imperceptible in sound in order to better grasp their very real effects on the world about us. Hewing closely to the neo-Deleuzian philosophical vision of Brain Massumi and Erin Manning - editors of the Technologies of Lived Abstraction series in which this book appears - The Rhythmic Event comes across less as a renovation than as an extension of that theoretical universe; almost a kind of application; framed here in the very specific terms of sonic media. Indeed for Ikoniadou; sound; with all its vibratory; energetic and rhythmic qualities; makes for a privileged site of sensual inquiry; bringing into sharp relief the many claims made by the recent wave of affect theory.And as far as that project goes - using sound art to illustrate the principles of an affect-attendant philosophy - The Rhythmic Event does admirably. On the other hand; despite the interesting range of works surveyed - the photography of Idris Khan; installation work by Lynn Pook and Julien Clauss; the sensory experiments of AELab and the audio spotlight art of Marie Sester to name a few - the book suffers; I think; from a lack of ambition. While opening with a promising and genuinely thought-provoking effort to reevaluate the digital in light of its received status as a diminished cousin of the apparently richer realm of the analog; the rest of the book loses this theorizing momentum and tails off into a bit of cataloging effort; running artworks though Ikoniadous interpretive lens to bring out and detail premises already established early on. Its all fine as far as it goes; I just wish it went... further. Still; this is a refreshing book for both its clarity and the unique angle(s) from which it approaches its subject.