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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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