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To Chantal
It is when in a moment of sharp consciousness, Matter through the proliferation of its
forms strikes us with the measure of the ephemeral. A painful and at the same time
magnificent experience.
One being dissolved in the Number.
Magnificence of the abounding and of each of its fragile manifestations.
Sparkling of Presence.
Infinitely admirable moment of the kissing of parallels.
And Time.
Which could be the sense of this action, this abounding of sound, other than an answer to
the amazement to the luxurious prodigality and the sumptuousness of Matter.
And this little sentence, these few words, that carried me along or guided me, I don’t
recall:
“Then as a drapery,
Spring came
On our dazzled bodies.”— LF
The technical and compositional challenge here is the work on metamorphosis. Using a single type of material (electric guitar) I had to find the tools and develop the processes to make it evolve in a form which, through the transformations of sound, would generate a spiral effect.
On a formal level: Les corps éblouis is a work in which, through the development of this principle of metamorphosis, the result is that the Form is only legible superficially, and that it grows on the listener according to an irrational process.
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Les corps éblouis was commissioned by the French State (Music Office) and the Ina-GRM (Paris). It was realized in the GRM studios (1992-93) and premiered by Francis Dhomont (sound projection) in June, 1993 in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France) as part of the Son-Mu concert series. The work was reworked in 1994 and the current version was premiered at the Théâtre national de Marseille (France). Les corps éblouis was awarded the 2nd Prize at the 22nd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1994) and was also awarded Distinctions at the Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 1995, 97).
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Krén was awarded a 1er Prize ex æquo at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France).
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[English translation not available]
Métamorphose d’un jaune citron est une sorte de peinture musicale. Sa démarche compositionnelle étant semblable à celle d’une œuvre picturale, les sons étant traités en tant que couleurs et valeurs. La bande magnétique se substitue à la toile de chevalet en quelque sorte…
La composition est bâtie sur un principe intuitif des sons fondamentaux et sons complémentaires. La teinte générale résulte de la superposition de sons de même famille, de sons aux nuances proches ayant pour base deux couleurs sonores composantes et leur fondamentale.
La couleur mentale que revêt un son étant subjective le but de cette musique n’est pas du tout de traduire en sons les couleurs de l’arc-en-ciel. Cette couleur n’existera que par rapport à d’autres données, contexte choisi par l’auteur.
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