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Migrations
Appartenances: Thème celte, 6m08s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Migrations
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (2003) IMED 0373
  • About Migrations

    A quest for happiness, a quest for meaning, the Other and his universe, migration is a strange trail with its share of hopes and illusions. This radical displacement expresses a desire for freedom that transcends territorial and cultural borders. With each stop, the migratory process offers the distance necessary to reevaluate, to stop the clock and dream of this Utopia toward which our hopes take us. The three program pieces making up this album are such stops that have marked my migration through the American Midwest, three “invitations to the voyage,” to the conquest of parallel worlds, that allowed me to transcend the cultural itineration that came with five years spent abroad.

    This album begins with the freshest work, Appartenances, which celebrates the homecoming. It also provides an occasion to meditate on the position of the immigrant, where the excitement produced by the change of scenery is accompanied by the painful experience of the uprooting. The second work, Trois petites histoires concrètes, was realized in the course of my first year in St Louis (Missouri, USA). Its central place in this triptych indicates a very different kind of migration: it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the invention of musique concrète through an evocation of its founding processes. In the case of the third and last work, Masques et parades, the American migration also provided an opportunity to dream of new stylistic lands inspired by the circus, its nomadism, its deeply moving and iconoclastic poetry.

    Stéphane Roy [x-03]

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