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ICMC 09: Selected Music

ICMC
ICMC 09
2009
CD
1 disc
Not in catalogue

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Études pour Kafka
Premières traces du Choucas (2006), 15m00s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Études pour Kafka
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (2009) IMED 09102
  • piste@icmc_09-1
    • 1
      • Commission: Réseaux des arts médiatiques, with support from the CCA , Musiques & Recherches
      • Premiere: October 21, 2006, L’Espace du son — M&R, Théâtre Marni (Brussels, Belgium)

      To composer Hans Tutschku and our friendship

      Premières traces du Choucas [First Traces of the Jackdaw] is a second preliminary work for Le cri du Choucas, a long work in progress about Franz Kafka’s world, works, and character.

      “Kavka” is the Czech word for “jackdaw” (“choucas” in French), a kind of crow whose image adorned the storefront of Hermann Kafka, Franz's father. The title came from the strong animal symbolics found in the works of Kafka: a deep, solitary, never-empathic, often-muted cry one can hear in each one of his novels and tales, even in the slightest fragmentary story. As for the capital C attributed to “Choucas” in my title, it confirms the presence of a proper noun.

      No text yet in these Premières traces du Choucas, but you will find sonic research on and an impressionistic approach to the Kafkaian themes highlighted in the writings of Marthe Robert.

      [English translation: François Couture, i-09]

      Premières traces du Choucas was realized in 2006 in the composer’s studio in Avignon (France) and was first premiered on October 21, 2006 during the 13th International Acousmatic Festival L’Espace du son (Brussels, Belgium), then on November 2, 2006 — the composer’s 80th anniversary — during the Akousma (3) festival at Monument-national’s Studio Hydro-Québec in Montréal. Premières traces du Choucas was co-commissioned by Réseaux des arts médiatiques with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, and Musiques & Recherches (Belgium). Premières traces du Choucas was awarded the Pubic Prize at the 7th Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP ’07, Brazil) and was finalist in the “Premiere of the Year” at the 11th Prix Opus 2007-08 of the Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM).

      piste@icmc_09-1.1 oeuvre@19523 ISRC CAD500910187
    • 2
      Winternacht (2006), 11m49s
      piano, percussion and processing
      • Florian Hoelscher, piano; Martin Homann, percussions
      piste@icmc_09-1.2 oeuvre@27396
    • 3
      L’instant en vain (2008), 8m24s
      piste@icmc_09-1.3 oeuvre@28361
    • 4
      Tensile Strength (2008), 6m01s
      • Composers: Kyong Mee Choi, Timothy Ernest Johnson
      piste@icmc_09-1.4 oeuvre@24778
    • 5
      Timshel (2007), 14m56s
      piste@icmc_09-1.5 oeuvre@28819
    • 6
      Slinky, 12m49s
      • Composer: Mike Frengel
      piste@icmc_09-1.6 oeuvre@28820

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