Noise-graffiti
by Marc Tremblay |imed_9949-0001|
If there is a disruptive element in every search for harmony it is
bruit—noise: innocuous noise, bothersome noise, undesirable and
pointless noise, the noise that continually brings us back to the transience
of the passing moment.
Noise is the child of chaos. It confronts us daily and can come to
symbolize all that is accidental in life.
It was by listening to noise over a period of years that I came to realize
the immense expressive potential of these sounds. I love to discover the
poetry in the noise that surrounds us. I try to compose using objects that
transmit sounds, to conceive music that becomes the esthetic extension of
noise. In this sense, the director Jean-Pierre
Ronfard is correct when he says that “les objets
parlent!” (Objects Speak!)—the title of a play presented in
the fall of 1986 at Espace libre in Montréal).
The pieces presented here are the summation of years of work. In them I
have explored the dense forest of object-noises that scratch and squeal, much
like graffiti cover walls that are often just too clean.
Marc Tremblay,
Montréal [xii-99]
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