Orages d’acier
- Georges Forget
- Year of composition: 2007
- Duration: 9:27
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISWC: T7022644460
To my father
Orages d’acier was basically inspired by two works: Ernst Jünger’s novel Storm of Steel (published in French as Orages d’acier), where the author relates his combat experience in World War I, and the motion picture The Thin Red Line (1998) by Terrence Malick, set at the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. These two works provided the æsthetical and formal framework of the piece: moments where violence gets so intense that it becomes hallucinating and stripped of any emotion, these moments being separated by longs stretches of emptiness. I wanted to sublimate through music both of these war highlights: the dull anxiety and tensed boredom of the wait, followed by the commotion and chaos of the attack.
The piece concludes with a quote from an army song used in the French Foreign Legion, Les oies sauvages, remarkable for its melancholy and fatalism.
[English translation: François Couture, ii-15]
Orages d’acier [Storm of Steel] was realized in 2007 at the composer’s studio and premiered in April 2007 at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal. Thanks to: Martin Marier, Kaïs Demers and Nathanaël Lécaudé. Orages d’acier was one of the winning entries in the 2007 edition of the competition Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). It also received a mention at the Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva (Portugal, 2007) and a Résidence Award at the 35th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition(France, 2008).
Composition
- 2007, Personal studio, Montréal (Québec)
Premiere
- April 2007, Concert, Faculté de musique — Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)
Awards
- 2nd prize, Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2007, Canada
- Mention, Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2007, Parede (Portugal)
- Prize, Residency Prize, 35th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Competition 2008, Bourges (Cher, France)
Albums
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Various artists
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