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Musicologists alternatively love and hate composers’ discourse. On the one hand, any oral or written word by a composer might illuminate their works and thoughts. On the other hand, talking about oneself is probably the most effective action a composer can do in order to influence their reception and frame their legacy. Their discourse, then, is at once unavoidable and fraught with epistemological dangers. Most of my work in the two last decades aimed at displacing the terms of the composer/musicologistrelationship (hopefully beyond love and hate) by way of an interview methodology focusing on the creative act, devised over the course of long-term collaborations with Florence Baschet (*1955), Stefano Gervasoni (*1962) and Philippe Leroux (*1959). I will present characteristic data and findings from this series of studies. I will then introduce my current work on/with Georges Aperghis (*1945), an exploration of the visual imagination of the composer through open-ended conversations, and conclude that interviewing should always be experimental to some extent.

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