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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
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