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Tangram
Bédé: Le monde de l’enfance, 1m10s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Tangram
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (1999) IMED 9920
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    • 1
      Bédé (1990), 2m56s
      • Le monde de l’enfance [The Realm of Childhood]
      • La vallée des fantômes [The Valley of Phantoms]
      • La quête de la voix [In Search of the Voice]
      • Commission: empreintes DIGITALes
      • Premiere: November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Théâtre Les Loges (Montréal, Québec)

      To my parents

      Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

      Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

      Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

      piste@imed_9920-1.1 oeuvre@14251 ISRC CAD509813500
      • 1a
        Bédé: Le monde de l’enfance [The Realm of Childhood] (1990), 1m10s

        Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

        Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

        Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

        piste@imed_9920-1.1.1a oeuvre@23743
      • 1b
        Bédé: La vallée des fantômes [The Valley of Phantoms] (1990), 1m04s

        Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

        Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

        Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

        piste@imed_9920-1.1.1b oeuvre@23744
      • 1c
        Bédé: La quête de la voix [In Search of the Voice] (1990), 42s

        Borrowed from the Dictionnaire des bruits by Jean-Claude Trait and Yvon Dulude (Éditions de l’Homme, Montréal, 1989), the sounds used to create this miniature are taken from comic strips (bande dessinée in French, or its acronym BD—pronounced ‘bay day’), traditionally associated with childhood. Contrary to popular belief, I have never felt that childhood is a carefree time filled with happy and marvelous things. Rather it is a battleground where the child not only struggles against the exterior world of adults, but must encounter the enemies within—the demons, the phantoms. The voice of Marie-Hélène Blain, 11 years old, is the one and only sonorous element of the piece.

        Bédé was produced at the composer’s studio and at the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM) in Paris with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. The piece was presented on November 2, 1990 at the Montréal musiques actuelles festival.

        Bédé was commissioned by empreintes DIGITALes and was recorded on the disc Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] in 1990; a stereo recording of a multitrack sound diffusion was produced at The Banff Centre for the Arts (engineers: Antonio Oliart and Stephanie Rogers; assistant: Jennifer Lewis) in July, 1993, and recorded on the disc Tangram [IMED 919/20]; a ramastered studio version was recorded on the rerelease of Tangram [IMED 9920] in 1999.

        piste@imed_9920-1.1.1c oeuvre@23745
    • 2
      Éclats de voix (1991), 14m51s
      14-track tape
      • Jeu et rythme [Play and Rhythm]
      • Tendresse et timbre [Tenderness and Timbre]
      • Colère et dynamique [Anger and Dynamics]
      • Tristesse et espace [Sadness and Space]
      • Joie et texture [Joy and Texture]
      • Commission: CKUT FM, with support from the CCA
      • Premiere: September 26, 1991, CKUT FM (Montréal, Québec)

      To Martine Blain

      piste@imed_9920-1.2 oeuvre@14207 ISRC CAD509813510
    • 3
      Spleen (1993), 15m00s
      • Musique et rythme [Music and Rhythm]
      • Mélancolie et timbre [Melancholy and Timbre]
      • Colère et dynamique [Anger and Dynamics]
      • Frustration et espace [Frustration and Space]
      • Délire et texture [Frenzy and Texture]
      • Premiere: December 10, 1993, Journées Électro-Radio Days (Montréal, Québec)
      piste@imed_9920-1.3 oeuvre@14208 ISRC CAD509813520
    • 4
      Tropes (1991), 13m49s
      • Ouverture
      • 1er mouvement
      • 2e mouvement
      • 3e mouvement
      • 4e mouvement
      • Commission: Société Radio-Canada (SRC)
      • Premiere: December 3, 1991, Réseau FM de Radio-Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

      To Claire Bourque

      piste@imed_9920-1.4 oeuvre@14209 ISRC CAD509813530
    • 5
      Tangram (1992), 27m05s
      • Ouverture éclair (‘zipper’) [Opening of the Zipper]
      • Printemps (eau et verre) [Spring (Water and Glass)]
      • Été (feu et papier) [Summer (Fire and Paper)]
      • Automne (terre et bois) [Autumn (Earth and Wood)]
      • Hiver (air et métal) [Winter (Air and Metal)]
      • Fermeture éclair (‘zipper’) [Closing of the Zipper]
      • Premiere: May 19, 1992, Montréal: 350e — Réseaux, Planétarium de Montréal (Montréal, Québec)

      To Francis Dhomont

      piste@imed_9920-1.5 oeuvre@14210 ISRC CAD509813540

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