Le goût des larmes is kind of a transcendent journey to an island inhabited by a half-man, half-bird deity rooted in arid soil. Resigned and suffering, that god hides from human atrocities behind a curtain.

The work is inspired by René Magritte’s famous painting La saveur des larmes [The Flavour of Tears] (1948).

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Le goût des larmes [The Taste of Tears] was realized in 2013 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on September 13, 2013 at the opening of the Sonic Visions exhibition in the Lady Barber Gallery of The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham, United Kingdom). The piece was commissioned by The Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

Composition

• 2013, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• September 13, 2013, Sonic Visions, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts — University of Birmingham – Lady Barber Gallery, Birmingham (England, UK)