Mario Rodrigue: Alchimie: liner notes

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Alchimie

Mario Rodrigue

Alchimie

empreintes DIGITALes | IMED 9415 | 1994

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Alchemy, the disc

by Mario Rodrigue |imed_9415-0001|

There seems to be a line, a buffer zone which separates what is from what might be. A floating frontier where the concrete stands in counterpoint to the imaginary, the existing to the as-yet-to-become, the realized to the potential, in short, the past to the future. This line is the present. Always moving yet stationary, the elusive moment of our fluid desires, the present forges the future and crystallizes our passions.

Between the experienced and the unaccomplished lies a path of perpetual conquest: that of the past in relation to ever-changing aspirations. And so the present is infused with intent, direction and expectations in regard to the unknown. This is the stance that I adopt during my composition. The beginning of a work proffers the end, traversing an impulse and keeping its thematic continuity.

Of the five pieces on this disc, three (Tilt, Qu’est-ce concert? and Fiano porte) were composed in the studios of the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal, using standard analog sampling: recording on tape and varying the speed of playback. In this manner I could construct chords of bells, human voices, springs, accordions, marbles rolling on various surfaces, and of other sound objects. An analog system of active filtering permitted me to develop these sonorities, adding many colors, many forms to my palette of sounds, and assuring a coherent temporal progression.

To produce this disc, I copied the original tapes of these three pieces on a multitrack digital audio tape recorder, and sampled the sound sources as well as other sounds to enhance certain parts of the pieces and thusly create new, definitive versions. The production of this disc provided me with the opportunity to rework these pieces: I heightened them—without deforming them—strengthening the themes and solidifying the basis throughout, [thereby accentuating several movements].

Mario Rodrigue, Montréal [i-94]

Mario Rodrigue: Alchimie: liner notes

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