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Jeu (1989), 23m55s • Les règles du jeu [Rules of the Game] • Mouvement d’un mécanisme [Movements of a Mechanism] • Ce qui sert à jouer [Things to Play with] • Les manières de jouer [Playing Styles]] • Les plaisirs du jeu [Joys of Playing] Composer: Robert Normandeau
Commission: GMEB Premiere: June 8, 1989 (Bourges, Cher, France) Jeu is an acousmatic work based on different uses of the French word ‘jeu,’ a word which does not translate well into English (there are two English words for ‘jeu’: ‘game’ and ‘play’). The different meanings of the word as well as its different use in expressions were ‘sounded’ (put to sound), in both the literal and the metaphorical senses. It is a kind of “cinema for the ear” where an abstract sound story is told using, from time to time, somewhat realistic and recognizable sounds:
[ii-90] Jeu was produced in 1988 and 1989 at the studio of the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB), France, and at the studio of the Université de Montréal (audio mixing assistance: Alain Roy) and was premiered on June 8th, 1989 at the Synthèse Festival of Experimental Music (Bourges). The piece was commissioned by the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB). The residency in France was made possible with the support of the Canada Council [for the Arts] and of the ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec. Thanks to the guitarists, percussionists, and accordionists of the Paris metro, to Karlheinz Stockhausen (excerpt of Hymnen), to Perotin (for his Viderunt Omnes) and to all the staff of the GMEB. Jeu was awarded an Honorable Mention at the 11th Luigi Russolo International Competition (Varese, Italy, 1989). Disc(s) featuring this work
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