Cycle du son

Cycle of Sound
IMED 0158
2001

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Cycle du son
Objets retrouvés (1996), 5m20s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Cycle du son
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (2001) IMED 0158
  • The Cycle of Sound

    This ‘Cycle’ celebrates sound (a major discovery of the twentieth century) and concrete music. It is a fiftieth-anniversary homage to the inventiveness of Pierre Schaeffer, who clearly created an upheaval in the world of music that has had no precedent. Drawing on the same sound material which was forged from the first movement of Schaeffer’s Étude aux objets, as well as from a personal collection of sounds that have been stored away over the years, these four pieces go through a process where they develop out of each other, question each other, echo each other, and complete each other through allusions, commentaries, metonymies, and continuations. With poetic freedom they both evoke a historic journey and propose a connection between the object of sage Schaefferian observation and the wildest “metamorphologies” of sound art. Years after its composition, Novars, the third part of this cycle but the first to be composed, remains the section around which the entire work turns.

    Francis Dhomont [xii-01]

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