Sonars

Rephlex
CAT 116
2001
CD
1 disc
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Tangram
Bédé: Le monde de l’enfance, 1m10s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Tangram
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (1999) IMED 9920
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    • 1
      Bédé (1990), 2m56s
      • Commission: empreintes DIGITALes
      • Premiere: November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Théâtre Les Loges (Montréal, Québec)

      To my parents

      Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

      Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

      Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

      piste@cat_116-1.1 oeuvre@14251 ISRC CAD509813500
      • 1a
        Bédé: Le monde de l’enfance [The Realm of Childhood] (1990), 1m10s

        Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

        Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

        Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

        piste@cat_116-1.1.1a oeuvre@23743

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      • 1b
        Bédé: La vallée des fantômes [The Valley of Phantoms] (1990), 1m04s

        Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

        Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

        Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

        piste@cat_116-1.1.1b oeuvre@23744

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      • 1c
        Bédé: La quête de la voix [In Search of the Voice] (1990), 42s

        Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

        Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

        Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

        piste@cat_116-1.1.1c oeuvre@23745

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    • 2
      Éclats de voix (1991), 14m51s
      14-track tape
      • Commission: CKUT FM, with support from the CCA
      • Premiere: September 26, 1991, CKUT FM (Montréal, Québec)

      To Martine Blain

      piste@cat_116-1.2 oeuvre@14207 ISRC CAD509813510

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    • 3
      Spleen (1993), 15m00s
      • Premiere: December 10, 1993, Journées Électro-Radio Days (Montréal, Québec)
      piste@cat_116-1.3 oeuvre@14208 ISRC CAD509813520

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    • 4
      Matrechka (1986), 13m53s
      • Premiere: June 1, 1986, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières, Québec)

      To Lucie

      piste@cat_116-1.4 oeuvre@14383 ISRC CAD509813480

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    • 5
      Le cap de la tourmente (1984-85), 7m24s
      • Premiere: January 15, 1985, Obscure (Quebec City, Québec)
      piste@cat_116-1.5 oeuvre@14384 ISRC CAD509813490

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      Ellipse (1999), 11m58s
      • Commission: Arturo Parra, with support from the CCA
      • Premiere: May 15, 1998, Parr(A)cousmatique — 15e Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV), Cégep de Victoriaville (Victoriaville, Québec)

      To Arturo Parra

      piste@cat_116-1.6 oeuvre@14464 ISRC CAD500910014

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