Gilles Gobeil: Trois songes: track detail

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Ombres, espaces, silences… (2005) 23m00s imed_0892-1.1 | 10227 |

Commission: ZKM

Premiere: February 12, 2005, trans_canada, ZKM_Kubus (Karlsruhe, Germany)

With Ombres, espaces, silences… (Shadows, Spaces, Rests…), I wished to revisit early polyphonic music (Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova). I wanted to bring together this universe of intervals and chords, and the much wider universe of noises, the latter providing the setting in which to present — or evoke — modified fragments from the beginnings of Western music.

The universe of noises rests upon one of the History of Christianity’s fascinating phenomenon: the hermits, or “Desert Fathers” from the first centuries of the Christian era. These men had knowingly chosen to seek isolation, to cut their ties with society, for they believed the answer to the issue of human destiny could be found only outside society.

I have attempted to describe, through a number of tableaux, the surprising life of these men, their religious fervour (the same fervour that gave birth to the first polyphonic music), by evoking the physical locations, the aridity and threat of the desert, but mostly by evoking their fabulous spiritual imagination.

[English translation: François Couture, xi-07]

Ombres, espaces, silences… was realized in January and February of 2005 at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany). It was premiered on February 12, 2005, during the trans_canada festival at the ZKM’s ZKM_Kubus. It was commissioned by the ZKM. Thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the ZKM for their support. Ombres, espaces, silences… was awarded an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 2005) and was among the selection for the 32nd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Competition (France) in 2005.

1. Vol de rêve (2005) 10m38s imed_0892-1.1.1 | 23129 | ISRC CAD500810810

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2. Descente au tombeau (2005) 6m39s imed_0892-1.1.2 | 23130 | ISRC CAD500810820

3. La nuit (2005) 2m58s imed_0892-1.1.3 | 23131 | ISRC CAD500810830

4. Vision (2005) 2m44s imed_0892-1.1.4 | 23132 | ISRC CAD500810840

5. Entre les deux rives du printemps (2006) 18m08s imed_0892-1.5 | 20073 | ISRC CAD500810850

Premiere: December 8, 2006, trans_canada_release, ZKM_Kubus (Karlsruhe, Germany)

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Freely adapted from Paradise (Part 3 of The Divine Comedy) by Dante (1265-1321). A poem filled with speed, energy, and pure light, but also bearing a few reminiscences of earthly mistakes.

Paradise, XXX-58:

“And I with vision new rekindled me,
Such that no light whatever is so pure
But that mine eyes were fortified against it.

And light I saw in fashion of a river
Fulvid with its effulgence, ’twixt two banks
Depicted with an admirable Spring.”

[English translation: François Couture, xi-07]

Entre les deux rives du printemps (Between the Two Banks of Spring) was realized in 2006 at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany). It was premiered on December 8, 2006 during the trans_canada_release festival at the ZKM’s ZKM_Kubus. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts (CAC) and the ZKM for their support.

6. Le miroir triste (2007) 13m42s imed_0892-1.6 | 23018 | ISRC CAD500810860

Premiere: November 29, 2007, Akousma (4), Studio Hydro-Québec — Monument-National (Montréal, Québec)

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Freely adapted from a few scenes from an unshot scenario by Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovksy (1932-1986) entitled Hoffmanniana (1975) and picturing the tormented life of Romantic-era German writer/composer E T A Hoffmann (1776-1822).

A dialogue between Donna Anna (a character from Don Juan by Mozart) and Hoffmann), taken from Hoffmanniana:

— “Have you ever had, if only in a dream, the certitude that everything was possible, that no matter what you could want, it would have to happen? — And that everything would happen if, suddenly, you were to decide to believe that your impression was real?”

— “Yes, but only in a dream.”

— “But is not the dream as real as reality?” she says, smiling. Then, noticing he is not looking at her but at her reflection in the mirror, she turns around and adds: “You should not be looking into mirrors at night.”

[English translation: François Couture, xi-07]

Le miroir triste (The Sad Mirror) was realized in the summer of 2007 at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany). It was premiered on November 29, 2007 during Akousma (4), presented by Réseaux at Monument-national’s Studio Hydro-Québec in Montréal. Thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), the Canada Council for the Arts (CAC), and the ZKM for their support.

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