COMPOSER VINCENT GILLIOZ.
Are you in self isolation or are you just observing the recommendations where you are?
I have been on my own stay-home measure since the virus has been spreading throughout China and Europe.
What have you been doing to remain occupied, are you continuing to write music?
My life hasn’t much changed, since the life of composers is self-isolating. So, I believe today, most of the planet is experiencing the life of composers.
I am scoring a psychological thriller right now, and then I will be writing for a brass quintet. Lately, I’ve been watching the Berliner play Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra (Rattle), and Hosokawa’s Concerto for Horn and Orchestra(Rattle), after hearing of Wallace Roney’s death I played the “Tribute to Miles” album, and today, frustrated of being stuck inside, I played Iron Maiden “I’m Running Free” and “Phantom of the Opera”, the Paul Di’Anno versions of course.
Likewise, have you been watching more TV or movies or maybe box sets?
I haven’t watched any box set. The last movie I saw was the amazing Korean masterpiece called “Burning” by Lee Chang-dong, there is one of the most evocative sequence I’ve ever seen in the middle of the movie of a girl dancing in the sunset over Miles Davis’s score to Louis Malle’s “Lift to the Gallows”. Mind-blowing.
Have you been surprised at the way a minority of people are acting during the pandemic?
I am not surprised by what is happening during the partial lockdown. We react like our societies shaped us. This catastrophe magnifies the inhuman nature of our economic engine, but we have to transform this disaster into an opportunity to change this obsolete and unjust system unfit to face the life-threatening challenges that we’re facing right now and tomorrow.
Do you think that our lives will alter after the Pandemic?
Life after COVID-19 will be different. When scientists were talking about future natural apocalyptical catastrophes, it was hard for some people to integrate, because it was too abstract. From today, there is a universal, humbling, and undeniable reference that magnified the fragility of our own survival as a species.
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Being retired my daily life hasn’t changed much. I work in the yard most everyday and work on my Spaghetti western database, chat on the computer and the phone and e-mail friends around the world to keep in touch. I do miss that there are no sports and the theaters are closed. Now that the hoarding seems to have quieted down shopping at the market has returned to almost normal. I listen to music and podcasts, Our trip to the Custer Battlefield has been put on hold and most likely postponed for another year. Other than that life goes on.