Alter ego in Revue & Corrigée
The 4 recent releases that are finalists for Opus Prize (Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics) are
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Intéressé par la guitare dès son plus jeune âge,
Imagine an abstract painter working long hours to refine the tensions and balances of colour and composition of a work only to then have the gallery exhibit it behind a pane of tinted glass. A similar technological restriction for artists in the realm of electroacoustic music has been lifted by Québec’s Empreintes Digitales label. Since 2005, select releases have been mastered to DVD-A, including recent works by
Le bassiste et directeur artistique du groupe de jazz contemporain
The processing of instrumental sources enables a true deconstruction of the materials resulting in a myriad shards spread along the acoustic space. Subsequent layers of processed or electronic sounds are added, increasing the abstract nature of the landscape portrayed if the narrative intention — wholly permeating the result — brings in a complex framework quite distanced from electroacoustic traditions. The concrete elements are similarly displayed in an original fashion, transforming them into daring linguistic aspects by bending the materials so as to fit them into the expressive forms.