Interprété par l'Ensemble Arkea  (11 cordes)
dir. Dina Gilbert
26 janvier 2017 à la Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur

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J’ai dernièrement passé beaucoup de temps à réfléchir au sujet de la musique que j’écoute par rapport à la musique que je crée. Cette toute nouvelle pièce est une tentative de ma part d’explorer la division entre ces deux mondes en prenant des fragments de mélodies d’une chanson populaire puis en les réinterprétant dans un univers où les textures, les sons et les gestes correspondent au monde dans lequel je vis et m’exprime en ce moment. Je tente donc de déceler où et comment ces deux mondes s’entrecroisent. Je m’intéresse alors à ce sur quoi nos oreilles se concentrent lorsque nous écoutons, si nous pouvons activement cibler ou soustraire des éléments sonores pour entendre toutes les différentes structures qui se manifestent de façon simultanée.
 
(*Si vous reconnaissez l’oeuvre qui a inspiré cette pièce, s’il vous plaît il serait très apprécié de ne pas l’écrire dans les commentaires. J’aimerais idéalement que cette source se dévoile au fil du temps et que les gens ne cherchent pas activement à la connaître)
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Lately i’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the music i listen to versus the music i create. "f o r e s t  f o r  t h e  t r e e s"  is my attempt at exploring the division between these two worlds. By taking fragments of melodies from a popular song and re-imagining them in the world of textures, sounds, and gestures that I have been living and speaking in lately, I am trying to find where these two worlds meet.  I am curious about what our ears focus on when we listen, and if we can actively zoom in and out to hear different simultaneous structures at the same time.  

(*if you recognize the piece that inspired this work, please do not mention it in the comments.  I am interested in unveiling it through time and post initial listen, and do not want people actively listening for it)

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Pls folow me on https://soundcloud.com/rasping-boy
Guitar based improvised harsh ambient with bit of psychedelic, bluesy, jazzy, industrial  tunes and accidental parallel threads...
Welcome anybody for listen/download. Check please https://raspingboy.bandcamp.com for free download of 6 my homemade not mastered albums/EPs, most free improvised, guitar based, keept in simple concepts.  On bandcamp:  Self-taught, one-man, lo-fi home el. guitar based spontaneous recordings .  Looking for raw sound/playing, rasping, biting,  demolish guitar sound, adventure and concentrated  listening, un-predictive structures.  Self-help, dirty sound, with meditative aspects, overcome pain, fear, mood/mind shift, preferring reality over expectations.

Elizabeth Fawn composes minimalist classical music with electro-acoustic techniques.

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Digitally delivered sonic obsessions.
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Olivier Alary is a Montreal-based musician and composer who has released his own recordings, as well as composing for film and exhibitions. Since 2000, he has collaborated with Björk, Nick Knight, Doug Aitken, Monia Chokri, Maxime Giroux, Yung Chang, the NFB and the Centre Pompidou amongst others. 
For the past ten years, he has also provided soundtrack for several feature-length fiction films and documentaries, some of which have received prestigious awards and screenings in Europe, the US and China.

Selected Discography

'u,i' collaborative project with Johannes Malfatti on 130701
'Fiction / Non-Fiction' on 130701
'Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators' on LINE
'Excerpts', 3rd album with FatCat Records
'Ensemble', 2nd album with FatCat Records
'Disown, delete', e.p on Fat Cat Records
'Sketch Proposals', debut album on Rephlex records
'Sun in my mouth recomposed by Ensemble', Ensemble's 1st Björk remix (Vespertine)
'Cocoon retangled by Ensemble', Ensemble's 2nd Björk remix (Vespertine)
‘Mouth's Cradle recomposed by Ensemble’, Ensemble's 3rd Björk remix (Medúlla)
‘Desired Constellation’ on Björk’s album (Medúlla)


Selected film music:

'La nuit des rois', fiction film directed by Philippe Lacôte
'La femme de mon frère', fiction film directed by Monia Chokri
'The Great Darkened Days', fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
'First Match', fiction film directed by Olivia Newman
 'Allure', fiction film directed by Carlos and Jason Sanchez
 'Resurrecting Hassan', documentary directed by Carlo Guillermo Proto
 'Oh What a Wonderful Feeling', short fiction film directed by François Jaros
 'Ville-Marie', fiction film directed by Guy Édoin
 'Felix and Meira', fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
 'Corbo', fiction film directed by Mathieu Denis
 'Yo', fiction film directed by Matias Meyer
 'China Heavyweight', documentary directed by Yung Chang
 'Jo pour Jonathan', fiction film directed by Maxime Giroux
 'Last Train Home', documentary directed by Lixin Fan
 'The Dreaming', short fiction film directed by Anthony Green
 'Up the Yangtze', documentary directed by Yung Chang

Charles Norman Mason has been recognized repeatedly for his originality and attention to color.  Steve Smith of The New York Times writes “’Additions’ by Charles Mason , offered a nearly seamless integration of electronic and acoustic sounds…” Peter Burwasser of Fanfare writes that Mason’s music speaks in a “boldly, original voice”. High Performance Review states that the music is “full of invention… funky and colorful… consistently ingenious.”  Katherine Porlington writes in Upstate Music (NY) “...Mason's Senderos Que se Bifurcan... is, without doubt, one of the finest new clarinet chamber works of the past twenty years.”  Nancy Raabe writes in The Birmingham News “Mason's brilliant From Shook Foil occupies a class of its own... it is charged with creativity.”
Mason has received many awards for his compositions including the 2005 Rome Prize, a Dale Warland Commission Prize, and the 2008 American Composers Orchestra “Playing it Unsafe” commission prize. His music has been performed throughout the world including the FORO INTERNACIONAL DE MUSICA NUEVA in Mexico City, the Quirinale in Rome, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, and the Nuova Musica Consonante in Romani.  His music has been featured on “Performance Today” on NPR.
Dr. Mason is associate professor of composition at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.  His website is www.charlesnormanmason.com


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