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Entropic Twilights (1997-2002, 03-04) 49m02s imed_0577-1.1 | 14044 | ISRC CAD500518840

Twilight’s Nomadic Desire; Twilight’s Sleep; Twilight’s Ritual Incantations

Composer: Paul Dolden

Commission: ACREQ, NAISA, Réseaux des arts médiatiques, with support from the CCA

Premiere: April 29, 2005, Borderlines Festival (Malmö, Sweden)

To Mare

Entropic Twilights is inspired by the concept of twilight, a time between states. I use it as a metaphor for our own time, situated between millennia. The constantly changing density, tempos and moods of the first part, Twilight’s Nomadic Desire, suggest a state of impatience or anticipation. Twilight’s Sleep, a medical term used to describe the morphine-induced semi-consciousness experienced by birthing mothers, evokes a slow and dreamlike state of transformation. Opening on a metric modulation to a fast tempo, the final section, Twilight’s Ritual Incantations, surges forward towards the new. The closing ritard brings the piece back to a calm, reflective state.

Although there was great anxiety about the passing of the millennnium, I chose to compose a work which is joyful and optimistic. It is a response the the philosophical perception that the postmodern world is drained of substance, meaning, value and difference. Resembling a state of entropy, everything is flatttened in the postmodern world. (Imagine the typical music listener’s library: a shelf loaded with CDs spanning centuries of music history.) This is the basis for Entropic Twilights: engaging popular and formal writing techniques in an entropic manner — as equal resources.

Entropic Twilights jumbles together commonplace musical sounds (recorded individually in my studio) such as distorted guitars; drum kits; multiple choirs of voices; large orchestras of brass, wind, reed and string instruments; percussion instruments from around the world; Gamelan orchestra instruments; as well as tams, saucepans, cooking pots, metal poles , metal plates, and wheel rims. for this piece I make them sing in sweet, sometimes ironic tonal melodies, dissonant textures, jazz grooves, hard-driving rock beats, world rhythms and complex polyrhyms. Combined through excessive multi-tracking, these materials implode from within and take on new identities beyond their worn out historical meanings.

 

Entropic Twilights was composed in 1997-98 and produced in the composer’s studio in 1998-99 (Twilight’s Ritual Incantations) and 1999-2000 (Twilight’s Nomadic Desire; Twilight’s Sleep); the work was revised and remixed, and remastered in the composer’s studio in Montréal in 2003-04. Twilight’s Nomadic Desire — in two sections: 12:16 and 9:46 — was commissioned by ACREQ with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and premiered on September 15, 2000 at Usine C in Montreal. Twilight’s Sleep — 8:11 — was commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and premiered on September 2, 2001 during the Sound Travels event in Toronto. Twilight’s Ritual Incantations — 18:50 — was commissioned by Réseaux des arts médiatiques with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and was premiered on February 19, 1999 during the Rien à voir (5) series at La Chapelle in Montreal. The production of this work received support from the Canada Council for the Arts in 1999-2000 (including the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award) and from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) in 2001-02. Entropic Twilights, in its 2004 final version, was premiered on April 29, 2005 during the Borderline Festival in Malmö (Sweden), where the composer was one of the invited international guest artists.

1. Twilight’s Nomadic Desire [1/2] (1999-2000) 12m16s imed_0577-1.1.1 | 14045 |

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Composer: Paul Dolden

Premiere: September 15, 2000, Usine C (Montréal, Québec)

2. Twilight’s Nomadic Desire [2/2] (1999-2000) 9m46s imed_0577-1.1.2 | 14045 | ISRC CAD500518850

Composer: Paul Dolden

Premiere: September 15, 2000, Usine C (Montréal, Québec)

3. Twilight’s Sleep (1999-2000) 8m11s imed_0577-1.1.3 | 14047 | ISRC CAD500518860

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Composer: Paul Dolden

Premiere: September 2, 2001, Sound Travels (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

4. Twilight’s Ritual Incantations (1998-99) 18m50s imed_0577-1.1.4 | 14048 | ISRC CAD500518870

MP3 Real

Composer: Paul Dolden

Commission: Réseaux des arts médiatiques

Premiere: February 19, 1999, Rien à voir (5), Réseaux, La Chapelle (Montréal, Québec)

5. The Gravity of Silence. Resonance #5 (1995) 13m44s imed_0577-1.5 | 14049 | ISRC CAD500518880

flute, and tape

MP3 Real

Composer: Paul Dolden

Chenoa Anderson, flute

Commission: Nancy Ruffer, with support from the CCA

Premiere: March 23, 1996, Conway Hall (London, England, UK)

The work is based on fairy simple melodic and harmonic ideas. The interest for me in this type of work is to use the recording studio to create a series of distinct sound worlds, or orchestrations, based on these melodic and harmonic ideas. The tape becomes the catalyst for creating the changes in mood and tone. The live soloist repeatedly states the melodic ideas in a simple to very virtuosic manner.

 

The Gravity of Silence. Resonance #5 was realized in 1995 at the composer’s studio and was premiered by Nancy Ruffer on March 23, 1996 at Conway Hall in London (UK). The work was commissioned by flutist Nancy Ruffer with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. The current version was performed by Chenoa Anderson at the composer’s studio in Vancouver in 1999 and was later mixed and mastered in the composer’s studio in Montréal in 2003-04.

6. The Heart Tears itself Apart with the Power of its own Muscle. Resonance #3 (1995) 14m44s imed_0577-1.6 | 14050 | ISRC CAD500518890

4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 2 doublebasses, and tape

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Composer: Paul Dolden

Paul Dolden, violin, viola, cello, doublebass

Commission: SMCQ, with support from the CCA

Premiere: June 8, 1995, Électronie, SMCQ, Salle Pierre-Mercure (Montréal, Québec)

“When the amp’s cranked up, the perception of the material by the senses is certain and positive only insofar as the materials remain completely raunchy and powerful and do not develop centrifugul forces. Like combining chemicals which are pretty volatile on their own, when you put them together you can tear muscles and be explosive. This residual gesturality is a street level kind of a thing; it does not stifle the small amount of what is retained, but it is amalgamated with our favourite band of all time. And this does not express desperation or impotence; on the contrary, it is another step in furthering the goal of putting more dirt under the fingernails of the collective unconscious of Canada — a reality immediately attained after the overthow of of all senses. Playing loud and fast is supposed to be unfashionable, but meat and potatoes still tast good and the ground beneath our feet is a matter not so much of landscape as of offering the possibility of travel.” —Andrew Czink, Paul Dolden, 1995

 

The Heart Tears itself Apart with the Power of its own Muscle. Resonance #3 was realized in the composer’s studio in 1995 and was premiered during the concert “Électronie” by the Ensemble de la SMCQ — conducted by Walter Boudreau — on June 8, 1995 at Salle Pierre-Mercure in Montréal. The work was commissioned by SMCQ with support form the Canada Council for the Arts. The work was extremely revised in 1997 and this new version was premiered on October 5, 1997 by the Esprit Orchestra — conducted by Alex Pauk — in Toronto. The current version was performed by Paul Dolden (all string instruments) in 2002 and was mixed and mastered in the composer’s studio in Montréal in 2003-04.

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