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Radio // Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal matière sonore
Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal matière sonore
Matério_* (2006), 8m00s [excerpt]
CD: Pogus (2006) P 21041-2
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      Sunday MSM (2006), 8m02s
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      Matério_* (2006), 8m00s
      • Commission: Francisco López, Quartier Éphémère
      • Premiere: February 24, 2007, Spatio Lumino — Festival Montréal / Nouvelles musiques 2007, Société des arts technologiques (SAT) (Montréal, Québec)

      This is the first installment in a cycle of three pieces: Matério_*, Matério_** et Matério_***. This cycle experiments with “sound” matter (as part of the collective Montreal Sound Matter: Aimé Dontigny, Louis Dufort, Chantal Dumas, Steve Heimbecker, Mathieu Lévesque, Francisco López, Tomas Phillips, Hélène Prévost), approaching sound matter from its organicity. Musically, these pieces experiment with tone, of course, but also with harmony, rhythm, and movement. The harmonic aspect reaches its peak in the third installment, after being foretold at the end of the second one, where acoustic instrumental bodies go through the same manipulations as the sound matter, thus ensuring both dichotomy and symbiosis (even more striking in version 5.1).

      In a concert setting, these pieces can be presented separately.

      [English translation: François Couture, viii-07]

      Matério_* was realized in 2006 in the composer’s studio in Montréal and premiered on February 24, 2007 as part of “Spatio Lumino,” the opening concert of the Montréal/Nouvelles musiques Festival at Société des arts technologiques (SAT) in Montréal. The piece was commissioned by Francisco López, in collaboration with Quartier Éphémère in Montréal. My thanks to Esther Bourdages. Matério_* was first recorded in 2006 for the compact disc Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal matière sonore released by Pogus (P 21041-2).

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      White.gray (2006), 7m57s
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      s/t w/t (2006), 10m00s

      “Amidst a swarming of stars, the suspended city, a world reduced to its own radiance and punched with black holes through which escape the sleep, dreams, nightmares, insomnia, night shifts, and crimes of mankind.” - Jean-Luc Nancy, la ville au loin [free translation]

      s/t w/t was realized as part of the collaboration project Montreal Sound Matter, which brought together eight sound artists. The rule was to use a shared sound bank of field recordings made in Montreal. “Far from being a postcard, these sound portraits suggest an abstract view of Montreal made up of fragments modeled or transformed to the liking of the artists. Through these places turned into non-places and thus more or less unrecognizable, s/t w/t presents a feeling of the city.” - Esther Bourdages

      [English translation: François Couture, x-09]

      Produced by Quartier Éphémère, July/August 2006, Montreal. Initiated by Francisco Lopez and coordinated by Esther Bourdages.

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      In Memoriam Jane Jacobs (2006), 4m49s
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      Untitled #188 (excerpt) (2006), 7m28s
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      Nouvelle maternité (2006), 5m32s
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