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1. Mario Marcelo Mary: Haulie 9m12s amp_2004-1.1 | 21202 |

2. Annette Vande Gorne: Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est (2003) 8m06s amp_2004-1.2 | 10038 |

Commission: Monumenti Pianistici (Cagliari, Sardinia)

Premiere: June 7, 2003, Monumenti Pianistici, Exma’ (Cagliari, Sardinia)

To Hans Tutschku

Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est is a threnody for the civil victims of ideological-economic wars.

Claude Debussy’s highly varied writing and composition techniques find a strong echo in electroacoustic writing techniques and sound processing. For example, in his music we can hear ‘looped’ repetitions of short cycles often transposed, with or without speed variation (fast high notes, slow low notes) or coloured differently each time they occur, dynamic contrasts, sudden changes in tempo through transition-less sections (abrupt editing), overlaying of figures in a continuous weft, oppositions of masses, of movements (mobile/tension, still/release)… His 3rd movement of La merDialogue du vent et de la mer —, the 7th Prelude from the First Book for Piano — Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest —, and his orchestral work Jeux are all fine lessons.

There is also the special relationship with nature as a model. Here, nature is perceived in a diversity of energetic movements and spectral colours by the ear of a musician who tries not to describe it with anecdotal sounds, but to reread it and transpose the energy that drives natural phenomena. In turn, Debussy is taken as a model of energetic and musical behaviour, not as a sound source, but as a stylistic and dialogue reference point, one hundred years later. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est makes playful use of the opacity or transparency of a moving curtain that hides or lets us peak at a few fragments and reminiscences of Debussy, who would no doubt have participated in the adventure of electroacoustic music, and would conceivably have integrated space as a musical parameter…

[English translation: François Couture, ix-07]

Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est (What the Eastern Wind Saw) was realized in 2003 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain (Belgium), and was premiered on June 7, 2003 during the Monumenti Pianistici concert series, for the concert “Intorno a Debussy: nuove composizioni elettroacustiche su materiali del passato” (Cagliari, Sardinia). The piece was commissioned by the same organization that premiered it. Thanks to Lucio Garau. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est was awarded the 2nd prize at the 4th Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer (Pescara, Italy, 2003) and was recorded in 2005 on the compact disc 4° Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer (AMP 2004).

3. Massimo Fragalà: Contaminazione (2003) 8m40s amp_2004-1.3 | 21191 |

4. John Young: Sju (1999) 7m20s amp_2004-1.4 | 10273 |

Sju was awarded the 3rd prize ex æquo at the 4th Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer) (Pescara, Italy, 2003) and was recorded on the disc 4° Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer.

5. Yu-Chung Tseng: Ying Yang 7m56s amp_2004-1.5 | 21203 |

piano, and tape

6. Paolo Geminiani: Assonanze 9m10s amp_2004-1.6 | 21204 |

7. Jesper Nordin: Calm Like a Bomb 10m04s amp_2004-1.7 | 21205 |

8. Mauro Porro: Ipse 9m09s amp_2004-1.8 | 21206 |

[va]: 4° Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer: track detail

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