Electro music requires the preparation of a new instrument for each project; it's akin to instrument making that you develop as you use it. The technical difficulties involved mean that musicians have to memorize their movements and write down only what is strictly necessary to preserve the structure of the work. Although traditional music can sometimes be written down, as is the case with music from my region in Provence, it tends to be practiced by heart, no matter how complex it may be. Indian, Iranian, Arabic and Turkish music takes a very long time to develop and needs to be integrated into a long and rigorous oral apprenticeship. Depending on the musician's position in Europe, tradition leaves more or less room for personal inspiration. For dance For funerals For celebrations The same theme can take on different forms, always appropriate to the moment in question. These three practices, which have nothing to do with writing, came together in the music for The Death of Dracula. However, in order to ensure that everyone could play their part in a complex work dedicated to the image, we had to resort to a sort of score, which took different forms for each of the musicians. This meant that certain passages of improvised music had to be based on snippets of written music. This is a basic principle of Open Music. The idea was not to apply a single system but to blend them so that everyone was in the same movement without having to constantly refer to the reading. The difficulty and the richness of the process is to ensure that once the sound, the harmony and the quality of the playing have been established, the balances remain stable. It's about creating an original sound that is recognizable from one theme to the next, despite the diversity, and from one work to the next, despite the participation of different musicians. 123