How does Debussy's music connect to modern sound design?
Modern sound design, you say? Ah, that is interesting. It is, perhaps, a recognition that sound itself has a texture, a color, a weight that can profoundly affect our perception. My lifelong pursuit was to explore the sonic richness beyond conventional tonality, to find the 'perfume of sound.' The way I used orchestration to create shimmering timbres, the way I allowed harmonies to dissolve and reform – it was all about awakening the senses. This modern fascination with creating immersive sonic landscapes, with manipulating sound to evoke specific feelings, seems to me a natural evolution of that desire to paint with sound.
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