Serge Arcuri: Les méandres du rêve: liner notes

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Les méandres du rêve

Serge Arcuri

Les méandres du rêve

[Dream’s Meanders]

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Dear Serge,

by David Olds |imed_9310-0001|

I had always thought (without thinking) that musique was concrète when it drew on concrete, extant sounds to build an imaginary world. Now I realize I was missing half the point. Always rooted in the natural sound world, you use your sound-painter’s colourbox to extend the world we know into that dream state you are so fond of naming. Of invoking and evoking. You make imagined sounds concrete.

You lure me into an illusory world, half-glimpsed through sleep-closing eyes. Desert sands; a sandy beach washed with silken waves; an invitation from the Sand-Man (or is it the Pied Piper?) to enter the endless sands of Time… And then, on the edge of dreams, just before I slip into a peaceful rest, I‘m overtaken by lurid rhythms, pulsing signals just beyond comprehension. Words heard, but not absorbed. Inarticulated speech. Sound, not Meaning…

Chronaxie, Toronto, 1985; Lueurs, Montréal, 1987; La porte des sables, Banff, 1989; Murmure, Toronto, 1989; Prélude aux méandres, Montréal, 1990.

These pieces (these places, these occasions) have been mileposts for me on my labyrinthine journey towards a truly inner ear. They loom like spectres on the landscape of my aural memory. The invocation of that horn still haunts me six years after I first heard those ‘glimmers’ and ventured through that beaded curtain into your personal vision of an REM-driven world, toward the exuberant sounds of joyous children, melting into something of a ‘tangerine dream’… I am touched afresh with each listening.

David Olds, Toronto [ix-93]


Dream’s Meanders

by Serge Arcuri |imed_9310-0002|

Dreams, like myths, express themselves in a symbolic language, communication both an obscure and universal. At the heart of the night, brandished against this apparent death that is sleep, the dream world is more a product of senses and seduction than one of speech.

Following Résurgence, my first piece for tape, my work has moved towards a greater integration of the electroacoustic, instrumental and theatrical pathways. From this quest emerged the idea for Méandres (Meanders), a work in progress since 1984.

It is a mosaic piece dealing with dreams. The production can take many forms: each part can be presented on its own in a concert setting or can be adapted for the stage, as was the case for the version for solo singer, five musicians and two dancers premiered in April, 1990 at the Centaur Theatre as part of ACREQ’s 6th Printemps électroacoustique de Montréal.

Les méandres du rêve (Dream’s Meanders) is a record adaptation which combines the music for tape with the mixed works (instruments and tape) of the original concept, followed by the two initial pieces that gave rise to the project. Since the work is always exploring new directions, the present version is only an attempt to outline the elusive border between dreams and reality.

Serge Arcuri, Montréal [x-93]

Serge Arcuri: Les méandres du rêve: liner notes

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