The cluster as a musical expression of chaos: openings for a research project

Abstract

As part of the research project entitled Art in Action - informal hermeneutics and heuristics: perspectives on the music of our time (SID-UNTREF), this article attempts to reflect on the historical, formal, creative, and perceptual implications of cluster as a formal material developed in the context of 20th-century music. By analytically addressing a specific series of works, the aim is to access, on the one hand, a possible delineation of the historicity of this material and, on the other, the ideas, concepts, meanings, and perceptual experiences that it potentially awakens, such as spatial formal saturation, the undifferentiated, the amorphous, the chaotic, and the unconscious as a primary psychic level in creative processes.