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Helmut Lachenmann: Salut für Caudwell

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Guy Lavoie : Saxophone soprano
Antonin Bourgault : Saxophone soprano
Thomas Gauthier-Lang : Saxophone soprano
Edmond Forest : Saxophone soprano

Harmonium : Hans Martin
Orgue : Olivier Saint-Pierre

Enregistrement : Louis-Michel Tougas

Le titre de l’œuvre renvoie aux maisons-Dieu, hôpitaux-monastères du Moyen Âge qui accueillaient pèlerins, pauvres et malades. Ces institutions caritatives, gérées par l’Église, devinrent plus tard les « hôtels-Dieu », tout en gardant la même mission : offrir hospitalité, soin et refuge.

Au Québec, cette histoire rejoint celle de Jeanne Mance (1606-1673), fondatrice de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal en 1642. Formée en France auprès des victimes de la guerre de Trente Ans et de la peste, elle consacra sa vie aux plus démunis. L’hôpital, d’abord modeste, fut agrandi puis reconstruit en pierre au XIXᵉ siècle, traversant les siècles jusqu’à la fermeture de ses services en 2017, avant son intégration au CHUM. La Maison Dieu demeure ainsi un symbole de charité et de solidarité sociale.

Maison Dieu

From the perspective of the high alpine terrain of Northeast, Oregon, where I am currently doing compositional and photography fieldwork, the Pacific Ocean seems impossibly far away. And yet, from the perspective of both climate and daily weather, it is very much present. Coming into Fall Equinox, we are experiencing here in the Northwest extended unprecedented hot drought conditions.

So I thought—in the spirit of trying to understand what climate scientists call tele-connections—I would work with GOOGLE’s AI-model Gemini to generate a report just to help me, and others who are interested in these matters, understand these new relationships.

It is refreshing, working with AI to generate climate breakdown reports. It transcends the current world-wide political climate of anti-science / anti-culture dissent into barbarism, the same barbarism, which, in the 20th century in Europe, gave us both Hitler & Mussolini.

Ironically, the tragic mistake of the remarkably small cohort of billionaires that has profited beyond all rational proportion from the digital revolution, is that it has backed to the hilt—simply out of runaway self-interest—a new US-style species of reactionary. This is a reactionary, both Democrat and Republican, that we might describe as a holding-the-Bible, wrapped-in-the-flag, climate-denying, Judeo-Christian fundamentalist techno nationalist. They will soon discover, I think, that they have undermined the very open society and foundational science that made the great promise of Artificial Intelligence possible in the first place. Tragic, indeed.

Cliff Crego
North Pine Lakes
Eagle Cap Wilderness
OREGON

IMAGE: Fall Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) A circumpolar species. Sentinel Peak, Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON. Flowers open bottom to top. Once fully open, a good calendar for “here comes the mountain snow”.



The Blob & Beyond, or the extreme warming of ocean waters off the coast of OREGON

IMAGE: Last light, Fall Equinox, Whitebark Pine Country, OREGON

TEXTS Latin Dufay, Flos florum & 3-fold Revolution

Helmut Lachenmann: Salut für Caudwell

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