Listening to the Ineffable, A Cycle of Depths (2)
by Francis Dhomont |imed_9634-0001|
Forêt profonde
belongs to a group of works inspired by psychoanalytic thought: the Cycle des
profondeurs (Cycle of Depths), comparable to my Cycle de
l’errance (Cycle of Wanderings) (IMED 9107; IMED 9607).
This Cycle of Depths is presented, in its current form, as a diptych of
which this disc constitues the second part; the firstpart is an oldest
composition, Sous le
regard d’un soleil noir (Under the Glare of a Black Sun) —
instigated by the work of Bristish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing which
constitutes another empreintes DIGITALes compact disc
release (in coproduction with the Ina-GRM) [IMED 9633].
This form nevertheless remains open and will perhaps be augmented by a
third part (thus, a project-in-progress) devoted to the works of Kafka guided by the writings
of Marthe Robert.
It is a very old preoccupation of mine, this meeting of the imagination
adhering to the ‘psychology of depths’ and the mental images
projected by acousmatic art; what more appropriate, in fact, than this very
language for staging, musically, these fantastical representations?
The resources of a morphological vocabulary and its most adventure some
associations — which the alchemy of the studio permits — procure
for the ‘acousmate’ a power of auditory suggestion capable of
expressing the inexpressable unconscious.
Furthermore, in one case as in another, it is about exploring the domain
of archetypes.
Francis Dhomont,
Montréal [x-96]
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