L’inaudible
Stéphane Roy
This is great music, really
! — Percorsi Musicali, Italy
… a well meandering, varied and close to indescribable journey into one of the most experimental spheres of the electronic music scene in terms of compositional approach. — nitestylez.de, Germany
Prix Opus 2019-20: Album de l’année
- Composer(s): Stéphane Roy
- Cover image: Maddi Berger
- Canada Council for the Arts
CD (IMED 19162, 2019)
- 1Maelström (2014-16), 12:00fixed medium
- 2Train d’enfer (2010-11), 20:54fixed medium
- 5Les aurores pourpres (2017-19), 13:54fixed medium
- 6Les territoires secrets (2008, 19), 15:04fixed medium
- 7Voies crépusculaires (2013-14), 15:28fixed medium
- Label: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 19162
- 2019
- UCC 771028216222
- Total duration: 77:27
- OGpak
- 125 mm × 125 mm × 10 mm
- 50 g
On the web
Download (IMED 19162_NUM, 2019)
- This item can be downloaded and/or listened to at empreintesdigitales.bandcamp.com.
- 1Maelström (2014-16), 12:00fixed medium
- 2Train d’enfer (2010-11), 20:54fixed medium
- 3Les aurores pourpres (2017-19), 13:54fixed medium
- 4Les territoires secrets (2008, 19), 15:04fixed medium
- 5Voies crépusculaires (2013-14), 15:28fixed medium
- Label: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 19162_NUM
- 2019
- UCC 771028216284
- Total duration: 77:27
Liner notes
About L’inaudible
In my approach to composition, the path a piece will take is never determined upfront. Form and structure do not exist prior to the realization of the piece
This approach begins with observations and explorations of sonic materials usually drawn from acoustic sources. As any good plastic artist, I explore every nook and cranny of this material
To reappropriate
To probe the imagination, the immaterial realm through shaping and modeling sound is the modus operandi underpinning all the works on this album. “The audible part of the work is musical only if it evokes the inaudible,” rightly wrote
This quest starts anew with each piece. And each time the creator believes he is getting closer to the purely inaudible, only to realize all the way left to go to get there, this inscrutable distance then reigniting the desire to create.
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In the press
Recensione
Il cercare l’inaudibile dalla musica è la conseguenza di uno sforzo sperimentale, che si costruisce su prove continue di determinazione dei suoni, della loro manipolazione profonda come processo per arrivare ad una sorta di trascendentalità dell’ascolto, che vada oltre l’astrazione evidente
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Review
Released only recently via the 1990-established imprint Empreintes Digitales is
Critique
Le son est un matériau que les musiciens traitent et maltraitent, pour en extraire des substances aux variations multi-directionnelles, en fonction de là où ils veulent l’entrainer.
C’est sur les territoires des l’expérimental et de l’électroacoustique que
L’artiste offre des œuvres aux contours sculptés dans l’énergie de notre époque, grossissant l’infiniment petit, pour le mettre en exergue aux cotés d’un quotidien harassant, devenu sourd à nos oreilles. Un concentré de textures ordinaires pour une plongée dans l’extraordinaire.
More texts
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector, June 14, 2020
Blog
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Sunday, February 7, 2021 / General
The 24th Opus Prizes winners were announced on February 7, 2021 in Montréal. Amongst the pus Prizes… the “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” is L’inaudible by Stéphane Roy
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Friday, April 3, 2020 / Press
This is great music, really
! More -
Monday, February 10, 2020 / Press
… a well meandering, varied and close to indescribable journey into one of the most experimental spheres of the electronic music scene in terms of compositional approach. More






