The consecration of musical incoherence

Abstract

Meridian 1970 is a compilation gathering 20 musical pieces, that was released in 2005. These musical pieces’ only shared trait is the fact that all these songs were originally produced in the year 1970. I argue that this lack of aesthetic unity is what makes this compilation—and all the others done in the same spirit—significant ; the temporalization becomes the basis of the intelligibility, and hence, the legitimation of these songs and this era. The consecration is performed through the celebration of incoherence, of disorder, even confusion.