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Dementia

Léa Boudreau

  • Year of composition: 2017
  • Duration: 4:58
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • ISWC: T9255436523

Stereo

ISRC CAD502310001

  • 48 kHz, 24 bits

Memory.

Ideas get mixed up, splinter. As time goes by, forgetting happens more often.
You repeat yourself.
Confusion become the norm.
You repeat yourself.
It gets maddening, out of control.
And you can only grasp what is going on in your rare spells of lucid thought.

But the ravages never fade away.

Dementia is a musical representation of how Alzheimer’s disease evolves. Through the duration of the work, degradation, incoherence and sonic tensions gain traction, according to the various stages of the illness.

[English translation: François Couture, iv-23]


Dementia was realized in 2017 at the composer’s studio in Montréal. Dementia was awarded a 3rd prize in the Hugh Le Caine Award of the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (Canada, 2017).

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Mini-bestiaire pour la fin du monde

Léa Boudreau

  • Year of composition: 2022
  • Duration: 9:45
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • Commission: empreintes DIGITALes (Jean-François Denis)
  • ISWC: T3151840465

Stereo

ISRC CAD502310002

  • 48 kHz, 24 bits

Mini-bestiaire pour la fin du monde imagines three animal and plant species that would evolve beyond the Anthropocene by adapting to extreme environmental conditions. The work draws inspiration from speculative evolution to create their transformation, the challenges they have to overcome and, in the end, their successful adaptation. Their metamorphoses are based on changes already occurring in some species and some biologists’ speculations derived from past evolution: giant, colourful peppered moths living in luxuriant forests; stinky, mobile miniature trees; pollution-resistant long-legged aquatic anoles.

[English translation: François Couture, iv-23]


Mini-bestiaire pour la fin du monde [Mini-Bestiary for the End of the World] was realized in 2022 at the composer’s studio in Montréal. It was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes. Footsteps sound sample: Everyday Cinematic Sounds.

Sources and inspirations

Cho, R. (2022, February 3). How Climate Change Will Affect Plants. State of the Planet. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/01/27/how-climate-change-will-affect-plants/

Gruber, K. (n.d.). Trees that can walk up to 20m per year. BBC Travel. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20151207-ecuadors-mysterious-walking-trees

Joyce, C. (2011, February 17). Toxic Avengers: Pollution Drove Fish Evolution. https://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133842089/toxic-avengers-pollution-drove-fish-evolution

Law, W., & Salick, J. (2005). Human-induced dwarfing of Himalayan snow lotus, Saussurea laniceps (Asteraceae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(29), 10218–10220. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0502931102

Nguyen, M. (2021, October 20). What will animals of the future look like? We asked 7 scientists. Vox. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22734772/future-animals-evolution-unexplainable

Than, K. (2021, May 4). Why Giant Bugs Once Roamed the Earth. Science. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110808-ancient-insects-bugs-giants-oxygen-animals-science?

Thompson, H. (2014, October 24). Ten Species That Are Evolving Due to the Changing Climate. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-species-are-evolving-due-changing-climate-180953133/

Toomey, D. (2018, April 5). Urban Darwinism: How Species Are Evolving to Survive in Cities. Yale E360. https://e360.yale.edu/features/urban-darwinism-how-species-are-evolving-to-survive-in-cities

Wikipedia contributors. (2023, January 29). Peppered moth evolution. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

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Impromptu[e]

Léa Boudreau

  • Year of composition: 2017
  • Duration: 7:09
  • Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • ISWC: T9255436590

Stereo

ISRC CAD502310003

  • 48 kHz, 24 bits

This work is an exploration of cello materials from my old friend Lara and the emotivity of reuniting with her.

[English translation: François Couture, iv-23]


Impromptu[e] was realized in 2017 at the composer’s studio in Montréal and premiered on January 10, 2018 as part of the Ultrasons festival at Salle Claude-Champagne of the Université de Montréal (Québec). Thank you to Lara Laverdure for her performance at the cello.

Composition

Premiere

  • January 10, 2018, Ultrasons — La relève sur orbite, Salle Claude-Champagne — Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)

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Recovery

Léa Boudreau

  • Year of composition: 2018
  • Duration: 7:16
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • ISWC: T9255436534

Stereo

ISRC CAD502310004

  • 48 kHz, 24 bits

Recovery is the long and tortured path of a mental and physical recovery. That path, filled with fails and missteps, is evolving following a precisely articulated continuum evoking the challenges and decisions that shape its course. In the end, remission is achieved, wounds have healed, and some sort of inner peace settles in.

[English translation: François Couture, iv-23]


Recovery was realized in 2018 at the composer’s studio in Montréal and premiered on April 24, 2018 as part of the Ultrasons festival at Salle Claude-Champagne of the Université de Montréal (Québec). Thank you to Gabrielle Cloutier pour her vocal performance. Recovery won 3rd prize at the Concours international de la musique électroacoustique SIME (Lille, France, 2019).

Composition

Premiere

  • April 24, 2018, Ultrasons — La relève électronique, Salle Claude-Champagne — Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)

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Quatre machines pour sauver le monde

Léa Boudreau

  • Year of composition: 2019
  • Duration: 12:27
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • ISWC: T9307216804

Stereo

ISRC CAD502310005

  • 48 kHz, 24 bits

In January 2019, young students at the Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur school in Montréal took part in a brainstorming exercise to imagine fantastical machines following this theme: “Four Machines to Save the World.” No limits, no other directives, no bad ideas. This piece was composed from their suggestions. It translates into sounds and music the contraptions they came up with and the environment they would evolve in.

The work is divided into four sections with subtitles that match the original titles provided by the students:

  1. A flying machine that works on pollution and transforms it into clean air
  2. A robot-machine shaped like an animal to save animals that have no home and live in the streets
  3. A machine to send all the snow that falls here to the North Pole so that it stops melting
  4. A boat-submarine-machine to clean the oceans

[English translation: François Couture, iv-23]


Quatre machines pour sauver le monde [Four Machines to Save the World] was realized in 2019 at the composer’s studio in Montréal and premiered on April 30, 2019 as part of the Ultrasons festival at Salle Claude-Champagne of the Université de Montréal (Québec). Thank you to Samuel Cadieux et his young students at the Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur elementary school in Montréal for their participation and ideas. Quatre machines pour sauver le monde won 3rd prize at the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)’s competition Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) (Canada, 2019).

Composition

Premiere

  • April 30, 2019, Ultrasons — L’élite numérique — Concert 2, Salle Claude-Champagne — Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)

Awards

Mastering