Kaleidos

Compact-compact 7
IMED 9630
1996
CD
1 disc
15.00 CAD -7%

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Kaleidos
Mimetismo (1992), 10m36s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Kaleidos
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (1996) IMED 9630
Arturo Parra, guitar
  • Kaleidos, the disc

    Swarming, exploding, contrast and transparence. Color! This sonic color, klangfarben, born at the beginning of our century and which has nourished our contemporary mode of listening. In its different stylistic manifestations, acousmatic music often unites plastic research and desire for expression. A Kaleidoscope of antagonistic feelings, of transmuted materials and ephemeral forms, it is the bearer of imaginary spaces and of galvanizing passions, delicately poetic enharmonicity like forceful distress. One must prick up ones’ ears to this art which electrifies the very interior of listening.

    In acousmatic works, the sound materials are fashioned, even sculpted, in order to put into relief their most singular characteristics. Among the sounds which result from these workings, there are those which possess a surprisingly evocative force. Like archetypes, they are intended as the expression of our interior world and their mysterious meanings radiate throughout the entire work, thus participating in the formation of its poetic substance. During this compositional process, the material and the formal architecture of the work mutually generate a circular fertile movement, until the right moment when something suddenly appears and the composer then makes it permanent. Haunted by the problem of reception, the composer does not approach the work as an abstract project, but like a palpable esthetic phenomenon which proliferates by way of numerous transformations through a concrete sonic experience.

    Kaleidos has its origins in such a process. It draws together four works composed over the past seven years during which an expressive will was manifested in Ondes / Arborescences (1987) and Paysages intérieurs (1988), and which progressively led to a preoccupation with more and more insistent plasticities and forms in Mimetismo (1992) and Crystal Music (1994). Ondes / Arborescences and Paysages intérieurs bear witness to a continual development. Lively and exuberant, the shattering of sonic colors which burst forth from Ondes / Arborescences sometimes turn into violent expressive contrasts. Bursts and contrasts yield to a dialogue of shadows and twilight in the dreamlike discourse of Paysages intérieurs where an ever-present tension creates an expressionistic atmosphere. More recent works, Mimetismo and Crystal Music were an opportunity for me to question myself regarding the existence of a manner of writing which is acousmatic; they both exploit the principles regulating the phenomenon of causality between musical unities.

    Stéphane Roy, Montréal [v-96]

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  • Mimetismo: Prix Ars Electronica 1992 — Mention
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  • Canada Council of the Arts