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petits Big Bangs
Big Bang II (1987, 95), 7m40s [excerpt]
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DVD-Audio: empreintes DIGITALes (2006) IMED 0681
  • Mixed, Multimedia & Acousmatic Music: 1976-2002 Retrospective

    The tiniest ball holding an explosive charge, grains of sound evoking untamed vibrations, visceral waves produced by shocks that are ridiculously infinitesimal and yet strong enough to make universes suddenly appear, universes out of which sprout torrents and thunder; particles of sonic dust singing in resonant caverns; flogging gluons, or even the bangs, the little bangs, in other words sound as energy, what opens the doors eavesdropping on life.

    No work arises out of strict solitude, it is always the result of intertwined fluxes, synergy, osmoses, both short and long seasons of passion, research levels, questions, dives without a net, sufferings, rips, melancholia, supports, findings, and shared illuminations. There is never one single composer. We are all made of the sum of those we cross path with and who transform us, allowing us to find the joys necessary to break out of this isolation and distress. Thank you to everyone who believed in me, made it possible for these works to exist and keep on existing, who lent me their time, imagination and talent, who shared with me their wild creativity, knowledge and skills, who were kind enough to share and give with a smile and without keeping count. Most of all, thank you to those who have been close and faithful to me for so long. They know it. This is a love confession murmured to the ear.

    Marcelle Deschênes, Montréal [English translation: François Couture, viii-06]

  • The Devouring of the Sky
    By Jean-Noël von der Weid

    Some works admit a bivouac deep into reverie; or some rough anabases under the twin skies of raindrops; or elegant picnics among red poppies and concrete. Works feeding our love for life, as long as life is extreme, like a smile under the vault of the Dead. A permanent uncertainty in the trickles of acoustic lights and the crystalline jet of silence.

    Before anyone else, Marcelle Deschênes developed diversity, and audio and visual polysemy, with frightening care: education and composition; mixed, experimental, acousmatic, multimedia and spatialized electroacoustic music; pluridisciplinary teamwork, cutting-edge technology, and photography. Not in order to crush the spirits, but to put them onto a new wave train and thus renew the Tree of Senses; to dig through our folds and spice up the way our sound bodies — mosaics of forever-unquenched sensual delights — fit together. And thus “find back the primeval nakedness, the lost dimension.”

    The result is music making use of all languages, music that is alive, learned, felt and then understood; the classical music of tomorrow morning, whose tears at its own flesh picture the development of imagination and relevance of thought.

    Marcelle Deschênes’ creations devour. Because they are brief monuments; apocalyptic waves breaking over extremely small spaces; amazed innocence within the thickness of opacity; exuberance and decomposition. Because Marcelle composes her own history of the world, this snowflake, which seems to have lost its whiteness, although no one knows why.

    Jean-Noël von der Weid, Paris (France), June 26, 2005 [English translation: François Couture, vi-05]

  • Expansive Spirit
    By Rosemary Mountain

    Stormy, serene, tender, bold — the music of Marcelle Deschênes moves with ease through the gamut of emotions, often with an exhilarating rapidity. The skill that crafts the sonic shapes of mood is of such high quality that the listener is easily persuaded to relinquish control to the composer, and accept the often dizzying colours and images associated with the sounds. Sometimes such visual dimensions are manifest through a multimedia presentation — but even in the purely aural concertworks, the listener’s imagination is stirred to provide lush mental imagery. And inherent within her music is an energy that demands a far-from-passive from the audience.

    Rosemary Mountain, Musicworks #86 (summer 2003) [vi-03]

  • Composer: Marcelle Deschênes
  • Authors: Rosemary Mountain, Jean-Noël von der Weid
  • Cover image: David Morin

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