Various artists

Inventionen ’98: 50 Jahre Musique Concrète

Parallele 9/10
Edition RZ
RZ 10009/10
1999
CD
2 discs
Not in catalogue

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Radio // Inventionen ’98: 50 Jahre Musique Concrète
Cycle du son
Phonurgie (1998), 12m43s [excerpt]
Track 4 from Cycle du son
CD: empreintes DIGITALes (2001) IMED 0158
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      Phonurgie (1998), 12m29s
      • Commission: DAAD
      • Premiere: September 25, 1998, Inventionen ’98 (Berlin, Germany)

      To Inés Wickmann Jaramillo and her found objects

      Phonurgie — “making, working, and creating sound” — presents, fifty years after the first gropings, and at the verge of the century under examination, one of the current states of this new art, which has become an independent art of sounds.

      Unlike the other pieces in the Cycle, Phonurgie quotes no more than a passing subject of Schaefferian study, bringing the sound of this legacy to a close; on the other hand, the first part, Objets retrouvés, draws all of its material and its structure from it. Paraphrased elements from Novars can, of course, be found — elements that themselves paraphrase Étude aux objets, making them commentaries on commentaries — while the opening and conclusion make reference to AvatArsSon. Nevertheless, in this fourth homage, the allusions to the origins melt away before the original propositions; filiation is not renounced, but here the child, finally grown, reveals its identity.

      While technology may have changed considerably and the “sound color” may no longer be the same, morphological thought and writing still remain, in all of their many forms, true to the ‘spirit’ of the first “concerts de bruit” (Noise concerts).

      [English translation: Tom Carter]

      Phonurgie — 4th of the 4 works in the Cycle du son — was realized in 1998 in the Syter studio of Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and in the composer’s studio, and it premiered on September 25th, 1998 as part of the Inventionen ’98 festival (Berlin, Germany). The piece was commissioned by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Phonurgie won First Prize at CIMESP 1999 (São Paulo, Brazil) and First Prize at CibertArt 1999 (Valencia, Spain). In 1998 Phonurgie was included on the Inventionen ’98: 50 Jahre Musique Concrète disc (RZ 10009/10) and in 1999 on the Musica Maximalista 6: III CIMESP 1999 disc (CD 199008708).

      piste@rz_10009-2.1 oeuvre@13851 ISRC CAD500114570

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      This work uses the same vocal materials as Interiors and Interplays. I wanted to create a “breathing” piece without text. A piece which in the abstract sense of the word would consist of inhalations and exhalations, of contractions and dilations. The title Intensities and Interludes is directly referring to this theory of contrasts which over the years has been the fundament in my creation. The piece is structured both on a micro- and macro-level according to this theory and to certain “dramaturgical” rules. As I look back on my career in electroacoustic music which begins approximately 14 years ago, I can without exaggerating state that the tradition of the French “school” and especially musique concrète has been and still is the major musical influence for me. Commissioned by DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

      [source: reseauxconcerts.com]

      piste@rz_10009-2.2 oeuvre@20429

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