La rage
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
- Year of composition: 2004-05
- Duration: 49:08
- Instrumentation: drum kit (free jazz musician), processing, interactive processing and 8-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISWC: T9034473773
A piece for all the clean-cut punks: If their hair is less a mark of their distress, their cynicism is as violent a cry of disillusion.
A reading of Louis Hamelin’s novel La rage (1989).
La rage (rage):
ravished land, expropriated for flying steel;
ravished people, castrated of their identity;
youth wasted in seduction and hiding;
intelligence betrayed by a culture of beauty;
cynical for survival.La rage (rabies):
tiny germ, destructive incubation, death by the drop…
… explosion, a cyst bursts, the pus of hate flows.
Death for survival.
[vii-09]
La rage [Rage] was realized in 2004-05 at the studios of the Electroacoustics sector of Université de Montréal and at the composer’s studio. It was premiered by Stefan Schneider on March 5, 2005 at Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, at the end of a week’s worth of on-location rehearsals and fine-tuning. Thanks: Claudine Levasseur, Stefan Schneider, Sylvain Pohu, Robert Normandeau, Jean Piché, Luk Côté, Jonty Harrison, Jean-François Denis, Dominique Bassal, and the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). La rage was selected as a finalist at the 34th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Competition (France, 2007), and the concert Alter ego (in which La rage was the main work featured) was awarded the 2005-06 Prix Opus for Best Concert — Musique actuelle, électroacoustique.
Premiere
- March 5, 2005, Stefan Schneider, drum set • Concert, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal (Québec)
Composition
- 2004 – 2005, Faculté de musique – Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)
- 2004 – 2005, Personal studio, Montréal (Québec)
Movements
- Les jeux sont faits [The Dice Are Cast], 19:02
- le squat [The Squat], 0:12
- exproprié [Expropriated], 4:04
- oiseaux de fer [Birds of Steel], 1:06
- boules [Pinball], 1:35
- statique contemplation [Static Contemplation], 1:39
- boules dures [Hard Pinball], 0:56
- bûcheron du jour [Lumberjack du jour], 1:39
- tentatives de vol [Attempted Flight], 3:36
- techno-sexe: amitié moderne [Techno-Sex: Modern-Day Friendship], 3:34
- la chasse [The Hunt], 0:41
- Brûlé [Burnt], 12:21
- amoureux par intérim [Interim Lover], 2:27
- pompeux roi de nulle part [Pompous King of Nowhere], 2:13
- le cheval mort [The Dead Horse], 3:41
- ivre: vivre! [Pissed Party], 4:39
- Œdipe en banlieue [Oedipus of the Suburbs], 1:21
- Incubation, 12:30
- la morsure [The Bite], 0:33
- échanges lourds [Heavy Words], 0:28
- techno-sexe: junky dans le parc [Techno-Sex: Junky in the Parc], 1:06
- échanges plus lourds [Heavier Words], 0:52
- joyeux Noël en famille — inceste [Merry Christmas With the Family — Incest], 0:43
- bouées de béton [Concrete Buoys], 1:14
- abdication: foi forcée [Abdication: Forced Faith], 2:25
- haine en Larsen [Hatred Feedback], 3:36
- moment-fusion tôle-béton: 160 km/h [Steel-Concrete Moment-Fusion: 100 MPH], 1:02
- échanges trop lourds [Heaviest Words], 0:31
- La rage [Raging Rabies; movement], 5:08
- renard fou [Crazy Fox], 1:05
- techno-sexe: vol d’aéroport [Techno-Sex: Airport Flight], 1:00
- entrevue avec le proprio [Meeting With the Landlord], 1:36
- prendre le contrôle de la tour [Taking Control of the Tower], 0:56
- épilogue: pas d’avenir [Epilogue: No Future], 0:31
Scores
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La rage (2004-05, 49:08) by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay