La rage
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay / Stefan Schneider
The 5.1 spatialization job is sobre yet effective, digital treatments are hard-hitting, the composition is dynamic, multiverse, and grabs you by the balls more than once. — Monsieur Délire, Québec
- Composer(s): Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
- Performer(s): Stefan Schneider
- Cover image: Étienne Deslières
- Mastering: Dominique Bassal
- Canada Council for the Arts
DVD-Audio — Surround (IMED 0999)
- 1La rage (2004-05), 49:08drum kit (free jazz musician), processing, interactive processing and fixed mediumStefan Schneider, drum set
- 1Les jeux sont faits [The Dice Are Cast], 19:02
- 1le squat [The Squat], 0:12
- 2exproprié [Expropriated], 4:04
- 3oiseaux de fer [Birds of Steel], 1:06
- 4boules [Pinball], 1:35
- 5statique contemplation [Static Contemplation], 1:39
- 6boules dures [Hard Pinball], 0:56
- 7bûcheron du jour [Lumberjack du jour], 1:39
- 8tentatives de vol [Attempted Flight], 3:36
- 9techno-sexe: amitié moderne [Techno-Sex: Modern-Day Friendship], 3:34
- 10la chasse [The Hunt], 0:41
- 11Brûlé [Burnt], 12:21
- 11amoureux par intérim [Interim Lover], 2:27
- 12pompeux roi de nulle part [Pompous King of Nowhere], 2:13
- 13le cheval mort [The Dead Horse], 3:41
- 14ivre: vivre! [Pissed Party], 4:39
- 15Œdipe en banlieue [Oedipus of the Suburbs], 1:21
- 16Incubation, 12:30
- 16la morsure [The Bite], 1:33
- 17échanges lourds [Heavy Words], 0:28
- 18techno-sexe: junky dans le parc [Techno-Sex: Junky in the Parc], 1:06
- 19échanges plus lourds [Heavier Words], 1:52
- 20joyeux Noël en famille — inceste [Merry Christmas With the Family — Incest], 1:43
- 21bouées de béton [Concrete Buoys], 1:14
- 22abdication: foi forcée [Abdication: Forced Faith], 2:25
- 23haine en Larsen [Hatred Feedback], 4:36
- 24moment-fusion tôle-béton: 160 km/h [Steel-Concrete Moment-Fusion: 100 MPH], 1:02
- 25échanges trop lourds [Heaviest Words], 0:31
- 26La rage [Raging Rabies; movement], 5:08
- 26renard fou [Crazy Fox], 1:05
- 27techno-sexe: vol d’aéroport [Techno-Sex: Airport Flight], 1:00
- 28entrevue avec le proprio [Meeting With the Landlord], 1:36
- 29prendre le contrôle de la tour [Taking Control of the Tower], 1:56
- 30épilogue: pas d’avenir [Epilogue: No Future], 1:31
- Label: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 0999
- 2009
- UCC 771028099993
- Total duration: 49:08
- OGplus
- 142 mm × 125 mm × 10 mm
- 55 g
On the web
Download (IMED 0999_NUM)
- 1La rage (2004-05), 49:08drum kit (free jazz musician), processing, interactive processing and fixed mediumStefan Schneider, drum set
- 1Les jeux sont faits [The Dice Are Cast], 19:02
- 2Brûlé [Burnt], 12:21
- 3Incubation, 12:30
- 4La rage [Raging Rabies; movement], 5:08
- Label: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 0999_NUM
- 2009
- UCC 771028099986
- Total duration: 49:08
Notices
Thanks
Such an endeavour (the realization of La rage) would not have been possible without the help of my beloved entourage:
- Claudine, she who shares my life, or rather she who did not share my life while I toiled on this work. Without her, nothing would have been possible, and without our children, I would have perished!
- Stefan, for his talent, patience, professionalism and dedication to the project. So much work… such generosity!
- Sylvain, for his unconditional support, but mostly for his frank remarks and constructive criticism, and for all the help with [iks].
- Robert, Jean and the electroacoustic community at the Université de Montréal, for welcoming me in their studios, where I literally squatted for several weeks.
- Luk, for his reiterated faith in my projects, but mostly for the residence that allowed me to road-test the work in optimal conditions.
- Jonty, for blindly programming the piece in concert, and for his support during my education.
- Jean-François and Dominique, for their dedication to this music.
Finally, a special thanks to the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), without which making ends meet would have been a trial during the 18-month period I spent composing.
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay [English translation: François Couture, vi-09]
Images
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[Image: Étienne Deslières, 2009]
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Listening Diary
A lack of bass? Not La rage’s problem, clearly. This is Pierre Alexandre Tremblay’s latest offering on empreintes DIGITALes, and it is much better than his previous DVD. La rage is a 50-mnute suite featuring drummer Stefan Schneider in a concertist’s role. Metal electroacoustics! The 5.1 spatialization job is sobre yet effective, digital treatments are hard-hitting, the composition is dynamic, multiverse, and grabs you by the balls more than once. That said, I LOVE percussion — others may find this tiring on the long run.
Kritik

Zu den undogmatisch-offensten und mithin unberechenbarsten der kanadischen Elektroakustiker gehört zweifellos Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, und so überrascht es nicht, dass sein zweites Album (im Format DVD-Audio, incl. mp3) zum seltsamsten gehört, was mir in den letzten Monaten untergekommen ist. Oberflächlich führt der Titel nach einem Roman von Louis Hamelin in die Irre, denn bis auf die letzten zwei einigermaßen rasanten Minuten ist es ein eher nüchtern-ruhiges Werk, das er hier ums Spiel des kanadischen Free-Jazz-Schlagzeugers Stefan Schneider geformt hat. Aber kein trockenes, dafür steht die überaus farbige Ausgestaltung in zahlreichen elektronischen Texturierungen und Triggereffekten, mit denen sich Schneiders Schlagzeug (und Tremblays Bass) permanent in zusätzliche Dimensionen erweitern und sich von einer elektronischen kaleidoskopartigen Spiegelung in die nächste werfen. Das Besondere dabei ist nicht das eher brave Instrumentalspiel (das immer nachvollziehbar bleibt – hier wird nicht geschreddert), es ist das grenzenlose Vertrauen darauf, dass das Publikum einen Kopfhörer trägt und mitkriegt, dass das Klangbild keineswegs so dünn und locker ist, wie es oberflächlich wirkt, sondern bevölkert ist von feinstem, leckeren akusmatischem Gewebe.
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Kritik

More texts
- The Sound Projector, no. 19, December 1, 2010
- Dolf Mulder, Vital, no. 723, March 22, 2010
Blog
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Monday, August 17, 2009 / New releases
empreintes DIGITALes is releasing a new DVD-Audio in “Surround 5.1” during the ICMC 2009! Inspired by Louis Hamelin’s novel La rage, this work by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay performed by Stefan Schneider was finalist at the 34th Concours inter… More