Gilles Gobeil: La mécanique des ruptures (CD): liner notes

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La mécanique des ruptures

Gilles Gobeil

La mécanique des ruptures

[Fracture Mechanics]

empreintes DIGITALes | IMED 9421 | 1994

CD 25.00 CA$

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Fracture Mechanics, the disc

by Gilles Gobeil |imed_9421-0001|

Medieval stone-cutters would strike rock, making it ‘ring’ in order to judge its worth for construction. The illustration on the cover refers to stained glass found in the Bourges cathedral (France).

I’ve discovered that my work as a composer has much in common with this branch of civil engineering — exploring and evaluating the behaviour of material on the verge of splitting apart. The composer searches out well-defined forms, strong and clearly cut, alternating movements and interaction marked by tension and release.

The material which I use is subjected to restraint, to enormous pressure, until it finally sunders, shatters, transforms. Brought to its breaking point.

Gilles Gobeil, Montréal [vi-94]

Gilles Gobeil: La mécanique des ruptures (CD): liner notes

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