Francis Dhomont: Forêt profonde: track detail

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Forêt profonde

Francis Dhomont

Forêt profonde

[Deep Forest]

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Forêt profonde (1994-96) 58m32s imed_9634-1.1 | 14329 | ISRC CAD509612390

Chambre d’enfants [Children’s Room]; À l’orée du conte [At the Edge of the Tale]; Chambre interdite [Forbidden Room]; Il cammin di nostra vita; Les enchantements de l’imagination [The Enchantments of Imagination]; Antichambre [Anteroom]; La muraille d’épines [Wall of Thorns]; Chambre de ténèbres [Room of Darkness]; Forêt furieuse [Furious Forest]; Musique de chambre [Chamber Music]; Sortilèges [Spells]; Chambre de lumière [Room of Light]; Fantasme, mode d’emploi [Fantasy, Directions for Use]

Composer: Francis Dhomont

Commission: French State (Music Office), Ina-GRM

Premiere: June 8, 1996, Usine C (Montréal, Québec)

To my mother

Forêt profonde (Deep Forest) is an acousmatic melodrama, based on Bruno Bettelheim’s essay The Uses of Enchantment (Alfred A Knof/Random House, New York 1976), of which this is the third version; an extensively modified version, almost double in length compared to earlier versions. Forêt profonde is a work that has accompanied me for the past fifteen years, and its final production required more than two years.

Begun thirteen years after Sous le regard d’un soleil noir, Forêt profonde also derives its inspiration from a psychoanalytic reflection. An adult reading of children tales that moves between the memory of my naïve wonder and the discovery of its secret mechanisms. This hesitating between two ages perhaps presents the risk of failing to reach either one; but it is nevertheless possible for the magical intuition of childhood, that always sleeps in us with one eye open, to revive buried revelations, and for the rational mind to delight in deciphering, under the manifest content of this universal unconscious, the logic of its latent content.

It is a listening on three levels — novelistic, symbolic, musical — more disconcerting no doubt, but more active than an unidimensional listening.

The human journey of Bruno Bettelheim, whose thoughts are behind this star shaped course, interferes, for obvious reasons, with these old stories that confront us with questions on our time.

A guided tour of the childhood soul, which is nothing more than a return to the initiatory world—both cruel and reassuring—of fairy tales.

Forêt profonde comprises 13 sections, of which the 6 “Rooms” (sections 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12) constitute transit periods/areas, secret passages of sort, between the seven thematic sections (sections 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13). These “Rooms” contain little or no text.

Each of the 13 sections borrows a brief element, a colour, an atmosphere, from the 13 Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) op. 15 from Schumann, as a tribute to this pathetic composer, engulfed in the depth of his forest.

I wish to thank Inés Wickmann Jaramillo for offering me a poetic Colombian sound recording, and Beatriz Ferreyra for allowing me in such friendly manner to borrow a short but colorful excerpt from her Petit Poucet magazine (1985).

Forêt profonde was commissioned by the French State (Music Office) and the Ina-GRM (Paris). A bursary from the Canada Council [for the Arts] (category A) was awarded for the composition of the work. Most of the materials and the treatments were obtained through the Syter (real-time sound synthesis system) at the Ina-GRM, and the piece was produced at the composer’s private studio in Montreal. The present version was premiered on June 8, 1996 during a concert presented by ACREQ (Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec) at Usine C in Montréal. The two first versions were premiered respectively in Paris on May 16, 1994 during the Cycle acousmatique Son-Mu of the Ina-GRM, in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France), and on September 1st, 1995 at the Futura Festival of Acousmatic Art in Crest (France).

The piece was awarded the “Prix de la meilleure création contemporaine électroacoustique” (best contemporary electrocoustic work) of the Prix de Printemps 2007 organized by Sacem.

1. Chambre d’enfants (1994-96) 2m49s imed_9634-1.1.1 | 14330 |

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Composer: Francis Dhomont

2. À l’orée du conte (1994-96) 5m10s imed_9634-1.1.2 | 14335 | ISRC CAD509612400

Composer: Francis Dhomont

3. Chambre interdite (1994-96) 4m26s imed_9634-1.1.3 | 14336 | ISRC CAD509612410

Composer: Francis Dhomont

4. Il cammin di nostra vita (1994-96) 6m43s imed_9634-1.1.4 | 14337 | ISRC CAD509612420

Composer: Francis Dhomont

5. Les enchantements de l’imagination (1994-96) 3m58s imed_9634-1.1.5 | 14338 | ISRC CAD509612430

Composer: Francis Dhomont

6. Antichambre (1994-96) 3m18s imed_9634-1.1.6 | 14339 | ISRC CAD509612440

MP3 Real

Composer: Francis Dhomont

7. La muraille d’épines (1994-96) 7m32s imed_9634-1.1.7 | 14340 | ISRC CAD509612450

Composer: Francis Dhomont

8. Chambre des ténèbres (1994-96) 2m27s imed_9634-1.1.8 | 14341 | ISRC CAD509612460

MP3 Real

Composer: Francis Dhomont

9. Forêt furieuse (1994-96) 8m47s imed_9634-1.1.9 | 14342 | ISRC CAD509612470

Composer: Francis Dhomont

10. Musique de chambre (1994-96) 2m26s imed_9634-1.1.10 | 14331 | ISRC CAD509612480

Composer: Francis Dhomont

11. Sortilèges (1994-96) 4m14s imed_9634-1.1.11 | 14332 | ISRC CAD509612490

Composer: Francis Dhomont

12. Chambre de lumière (1994-96) 2m03s imed_9634-1.1.12 | 14333 | ISRC CAD509612500

Composer: Francis Dhomont

13. Fantasme, mode d’emploi (1994-96) 4m08s imed_9634-1.1.13 | 14334 | ISRC CAD509612510

Composer: Francis Dhomont

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