Various artists

VI CIMESP 2005

Música Maximalista / Maximal Music 12
SPAN 199020737
2006

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VI CIMESP 2005
Styal (2004), 13m54s [excerpt]
Track 8 from VI CIMESP 2005
CD: PANaroma (2006) SPAN 199020737
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      Styal (2004), 14m02s
      • Premiere: October 15, 2004, MANTIS Festival, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall — Martin Harris Centre — The University of Manchester (Manchester, England, UK)

      At the heart of the Quarry Bank Mill at Styal, south of Manchester (UK), turns a great iron waterwheel, the original driving force for the 19th century textile machines still residing within the buildings there. The wheel turns a large and resonant drive shaft, the sound of which can be heard rattling throughout the Mill, amidst a rich collection of other sounds. Various combinations of water power, steam, and electric engines now interact to drive the power looms and other metal and wooden machinery — remnants from the Industrial Revolution.

      Inhabiting the mill is a sound world of great volume, vibration, resonance, rhythm, intensity and energy, water and steam, cogs and wheels, switches, belts, pulleys and spindles, steam pipes, groaning and straining machines, delicate threads and textiles. All of this gives rise to a very unique music that inhabits the Mill, the machinery, the floorboards, and the air, and much of it finds its way into Styal. Quarry Bank Mill is, however, only a starting point for this work. Taking the sounds I have found and borrowed from the mill (with some additional sounds of spools of thread and tearing textiles recorded in the studio), I re-shape and re-create a sound world, music, and place of my own imagining.

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      Styal was realized in 2004 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of The University of Manchester (UK) and premiered on October 15, 2004 during the MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) concert series in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall of the Martin Harris Centre of The University of Manchester (England, UK). Thanks to the National Trust and the staff and volunteers at the Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate. Styal was awarded First Prize at the 6th Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP ’05, Brazil) and was selected in the Trivium Category of the 32nd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Competition (France, 2005).

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      Sublimation (2004), 7m03s
      marimba, and tape
      • Sean Darby, marimba
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      Time Spell (2004), 13m19s
      clarinet, and 6-track tape
      • Serge Conte, clarinet
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      Broken Nerve (2004-05), 10m03s
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      Vol d’Arondes (1999, 2002), 11m32s
      8-track tape
      • Commission: Musiques & Recherches
      • Premiere: November 21, 1999, L’Espace du son — M&R, XL Théâtre du Grand Midi (Brussels, Belgium)

      To Annette Vande Gorne

      Provence. A summer evening, the window open wide on the slowly darkening sky. Through this deep, blemishless blue, the flight of swallows: a strident, constantly changing feeding dance. The delicious night continues to fall. There are the sounds of the village preparing for the night festival; the echoes reach me. A jet begins its descent into Marignanne. How simple it all is!

      It is a moment of pure, contemplative happiness, barely disturbed by a few familiar cares, which are quickly chased away. I think of Verlaine’s “The sky above the roof, so blue, so calm…”

      This is music of memory: connotative, certainly, but not representational. It evokes and continues a previous work, Drôles d’oiseaux (1985-86), which provided some of the material for it.

      The space, too, belongs to memory.

      [English translation: Tom Carter]

      Vol d’Arondes (Flight of Swallows) was realized in the Métamorphoses d’Orphée multichannel studio (Ohain, Belgium) and premiered on 21 November 1999 during the 6th International Acousmatic Festival L’Espace du son in the XL Théâtre du Grand Midi (Brussels, Belgium). It was commissioned by Musiques & Recherches. The revised eight-track version (2001) was premiered on 15 December 2001 at Espace GO in Montréal as part of the Rien à voir (10) concert series presented by Réseaux. The version heard here is a stereophonic remastering — realized by the composer in June 2002 — of the original eight-track composition.

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      Historias (2002), 12m19s
      4-track tape
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