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1. Dust (2003) 8m41s es_05001-1.1 | 18412clarinette, and tape ListenComposer: John Oliver 2. In a Bed Where the Moon Was Sweating. Resonance #1 (1993) 9m05s es_05001-1.2 | 13906clarinet, and tape Composer: Paul Dolden Commission: François Houle, with support from the CCA Premiere: November 7, 1993 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Part of the Resonance Cycle plays with the notion of intimacy in music. Like all my music the tape portion is recorded with close-miking techniques which is intended to produce a fateful intimacy with the sound sources. In this case the soloist is often surrounded with their own sound creating a dissolving of the singular with ‘the other,’ which is in fact the performer reflected back in a narcissistic fashion. Beyond these elements, the Resonance Cycle also uses voice, which is perhaps the most intimate and seductive sound of all because it represents the body covered with appearances, illusions, traps, animal parodies and sacrificial simulations. However, like in all my music, these elements are multitracked to create a situation of excess and perhaps to leave us sweating in our bed of memories. As for the philosophical and æsthetic intentions of the hand percussion parts it is well known to any consumer of media music that in order to be considered artistic you have to have an African percussionist. Like the other elements in my music, the African percussionist turns into a dense tribe of sounds, implying some form of primitive seduction or perhaps a post-modern revenge. In a Bed Where the Moon Was Sweating. Resonance #1 was recorded and produced in the composer’s private studio; the live clarinet part was recorded by François Houle in December 1993. It was commissioned by François Houle with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts. The work was premiered by François Houle on November 7th, 1993 at a Vancouver New Music Society concert. This work was reprocessed, remixed and remastered in the composer’s studio in 2001-02. 3. Dialogue de l’ombre double (1985) 18m25s es_05001-1.3 | 18414clarinet, and tape Composer: Pierre Boulez 4. Come inutile ornamento (2001) 17m05s es_05001-1.4 | 18413ListenComposer: Giorgio Magnanensi 5. Revenge of the Repressed. Resonance #2 (1993) 7m11s es_05001-1.5 | 13901soprano sax, and tape Composer: Paul Dolden Commission: François Houle, with support from the CCA Premiere: November 7, 1993 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) As the end of the second millennium approaches, we increasingly deal with the angry fallout from our historical legacy. Everyone identifies with a sub-culture, each of which claims some form of victimization and self-justification. Society turns into a constant search for what has been repressed and denied and, like a pack of wild dogs, we search for some form of revenge for our victimization. However, given that our lives have basically become an extension of the mediascape, and real power lies elsewhere, we become trapped in an endless life-sized Nintendo game seeking justice and revenge. Correspondingly, popular music has become a monotonous driving beat to serve the same function as military bands once fullfilled for soldiers going into war. Part of the Resonance cycle visits these musical garbage dumps in order to use their energy and to give them a compositional language that they are void of. Moreover, if In a Bed Where the Moon Was Sweating. Resonance #1 deals with intimacy or sex and Revenge of the Repressed. Resonance #2 deals with violence, then this music might have the potential to be consumed by the media consciousness that it tries so hard to distance itself from. Revenge of the Repressed. Resonance #2 was recorded and produced in the composer’s private studio; the recorded soprano sax part was performed by François Houle in December 1993. It was commissioned by François Houle with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts. The work was premiered by François Houle on November 7th, 1993 at a Vancouver New Music Society concert. A version of this work exists for alto sax and tape and another version exists for tenor sax and tape. This work was reprocessed, remixed and remastered in the composer’s studio in 2001-02. electrocd.com François Houle: Double Entendre: track detail |
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