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Les corps éblouis

Christian Calon

Les corps éblouis

  • Christian Calon
  • Year of composition: 1992-93, 94
  • Duration: 22:46
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Yul média
  • Commission: French State (Music Office), Ina-GRM
  • ISWC: T0710252622

Stereo

To Chantal

It is when in a moment of sharp consciousness, Matter through the proliferation of its forms strikes us with the measure of the ephemeral. A painful and at the same time magnificent experience.
One being dissolved in the Number.
Magnificence of the abounding and of each of its fragile manifestations.
Sparkling of Presence.
Infinitely admirable moment of the kissing of parallels.
And Time.

Which could be the sense of this action, this abounding of sound, other than an answer to the amazement to the luxurious prodigality and the sumptuousness of Matter.
And this little sentence, these few words, that carried me along or guided me, I don’t recall:

“Then as a drapery,
Spring came
On our dazzled bodies.”

— LF

The technical and compositional challenge here is the work on metamorphosis. Using a single type of material (electric guitar) I had to find the tools and develop the processes to make it evolve in a form which, through the transformations of sound, would generate a spiral effect.

On a formal level: Les corps éblouis is a work in which, through the development of this principle of metamorphosis, the result is that the Form is only legible superficially, and that it grows on the listener according to an irrational process.

[ii-98]


Les corps éblouis was commissioned by the French State (Music Office) and the Ina-GRM (Paris). It was realized at the GRM studios (1992-93) and premiered by Francis Dhomont (sound projection) in June, 1993 in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France) as part of the Son-Mu concert series. The work was reworked in 1994 and the current version premiered at the Théâtre national de Marseille (France). Les corps éblouis was awarded the 2nd prize at the 22nd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1994) and was also awarded Distinctions at the Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 1995, 97).

Composition

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Premiere

  • June 1993, Cycle acousmatique Son-Mu 93: Concert, Salle Olivier Messiaen — Maison de Radio France, Paris (France)

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Krén

Åke Parmerud

Krén

  • Åke Parmerud
  • Year of composition: 1983
  • Duration: 17:15
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Commission: Rikskonserter
  • ISWC: T9118550815

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The title Krén is a combination of the words kronos (time) and energy. These were the two formal qualities of the piece as it was conceived. It is divided into five sections that makes seamless transition into each other. This was the first time I used the “huge boom” in one of my pieces. It actually came as a result of me playing with my Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer that I just bought and it made this huge sound when I switched from one preset to another at some point of time. All in all the production was a mix of digital and analog techniques ranging from DX-7, LinnDrum machine, PPG Wave synthesizer and a PDP-15 computer to analog filters, mixer and multitrack tape recorder with a lot in between. Anyway, I decided to make a formal piece with a relative time disposal of 3-2-4-1-5 sort of a fan shaped distribution of time and then to use an inverted charge of relative energy for each section. The piece ended up as one of my longer compositions with its 19-minute duration.


Krén was awarded the 1er Prize ex æquo at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France).

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String Quartet No. 1: In Memoriam Barry Anderson & Thomasz Sikorski

Stephen Montague

String Quartet No. 1: In Memoriam Barry Anderson & Thomasz Sikorski

  • Stephen Montague
  • Year of composition: 1993
  • Duration: 22:00
  • Instrumentation: string quartet, processing and system

Stereo

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Métamorphose d’un jaune citron

Patrick Ascione

Métamorphose d’un jaune citron

  • Patrick Ascione
  • Year of composition: 1979
  • Duration: 14:02
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • ISWC: T0030315060

Stereo

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Métamorphose d’un jaune citron est une sorte de peinture musicale. Sa démarche compositionnelle étant semblable à celle d’une œuvre picturale, les sons étant traités en tant que couleurs et valeurs. La bande magnétique se substitue à la toile de chevalet en quelque sorte…

La composition est bâtie sur un principe intuitif des sons fondamentaux et sons complémentaires. La teinte générale résulte de la superposition de sons de même famille, de sons aux nuances proches ayant pour base deux couleurs sonores composantes et leur fondamentale.

La couleur mentale que revêt un son étant subjective le but de cette musique n’est pas du tout de traduire en sons les couleurs de l’arc-en-ciel. Cette couleur n’existera que par rapport à d’autres données, contexte choisi par l’auteur.

Premiere

  • June 1, 1979, Synthèse 1979: Concert, Palais Jacques-Cœur, Bourges (Cher, France)

Awards