About Migrations
by Stéphane Roy |imed_0373-0001|
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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