{"id":42275,"date":"2018-08-24T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/chassol-having-big-fun-putting-the-world-to-music\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:17:04","slug":"chassol-having-big-fun-putting-the-world-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/chassol-having-big-fun-putting-the-world-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Chassol: having big fun putting the world to music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Videographer and composer, Chassol is the author of the radiant <\/b>Big Sun<\/i><\/b>, an album that synchronizes pop, jazz and free music onto images shot in the Caribbean \u2013 specifically Martinique. The multidisciplinary artist harmonizes reality to exalt the implicit that lies within it. <\/b>\u201cThe Sun is the closest element which humans can relate to. And without Sun, there would be no birdsongs.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

It\u2019s only a few moments after a late July sunset on the bay of Sines, Portugal, that the pianist and his drummer took the stage of Festival M\u00fasicas do Mundo (read our report for the 2017 edition<\/a>) inviting the audience to a nonstop audio-visual voyage.<\/p>\n


\nWhat is your initial and foremost language: sound or images?<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

Sound. I was born in 1976, so I am part of the TV generation, and a regular viewer of Tuesday night screenings at the theater. At 14, I knew I wanted to compose musical scores, particularly because of their format and duration being undefined. When I listened to soundtracks, I\u2019d be surprised by the duration of the songs: they depend upon the rhythm of the scene, which could be 7-minutes long, 1 minute, 30 seconds\u2026 Far from the 3\u201930\u201d pop format. So I\u2019d say sound came first, to then be placed onto images.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nAre there any particular soundtracks that have influenced your work?<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

I\u2019m very much into <\/span>West Side Story<\/span><\/i>: the extreme and precise synchronisation between sound and image. When someone raises an arm, you can hear a glissando of violins perfectly executed at the same time, and this is very satisfying to me. I\u2019m not very good at improvising, thus I\u2019ve developed other methods.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nWhat was your first musical instrument?<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

The piano. As a music teacher, my father was very strict with me. He would bring me to his band\u2019s rehearsals, and I would have to write down the score of the arrangements he played.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nDid that \u201crational\u201d strictness give you the opportunity to find the sensible and human elements inside the sounds of the world around you? In an interview you gave to a Spanish media, you said \u2013 I translate and quote: \u201cI\u2019m trying to discover the secret language of life.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

Did I really say that? I don\u2019t think they understood me! I don\u2019t believe there\u2019s any \u201csecret language\u201d of life.<\/span><\/p>\n