The work on this music piece is circling around the idea of creating an abstract physical system, but well articulated, in which the music involves and react. A system with its own laws, a surrealistic microcosm where space is subject to another gravity and other physical laws.

I highly recommend to listen to this music with a good monitoring system or good headphones, otherwise you will miss important parts of the composition.

Impacts Discrets

Colors and Lines I is the first piece of the new album from composer, video and sound artist Pierre-Luc Lecours. This album, made with a modular synthesizer, merges influences from ambient music and contemporary minimalist music. The musical result is close to that of Lecours’ recent audiovisual performances.
The album consists of 5 tracks where modular synthesizer lines, performed and recorded in one go, weave soundscapes where rhythms and melodic lines intertwine and overlap, creating constantly changing sound textures. The colors and lines of the music blend and separate, creating a contemplative and multicolored listening experience.

Colors and Lines

Colors and Lines I

Colors and Lines - I

Éclats | Rouge is part of the cycle of electroacoustical pieces that explore the timbre and textural possibilities given by acoustic musical instruments being played in non-traditional ways. In this piece, the piano has been seen like any other sound emitting object, it has been played directly on the harmony table with different objects to obtain a wide and rich array of sound objects. These sounds have been cut and then edited into an entirely new context, to which have been added programmed sound layers to create a duet in which both acoustic and synthesis sounds are sometimes put in opposition and other times fusion to each other.

Éclats | Rouge

Éclats | Blanc is part of the cycle of electroacoustical pieces that explore the timbre and textural possibilities given by acoustic musical instruments being played in non-traditional ways. In this piece, I have been working with the flutist Julie Delisle to get different kinds of sounds and articulations from flutes and I have been manipulating a timpani to get percussive sounds. The use of different microphone positions has permitted to get a wide array of sound objects spreading in all the frequencies spectrum. These sounds have been cut and then edited into an entirely new context, to which have been added programmed sound layers to create a duet in which both acoustic and synthesis sound are sometimes put in opposition and other times fusion to each other.

Éclats | Blanc

Iteration is the second piece of a composition cycle exploring the musical concept of pulsation. This composition is built around the ideas of acceleration and deceleration of iterative sound and the concept of polyrhythm. The sounds come exclusively from electronic sources and they were played mostly played in real time and then reorganized into a coherent piece.
I highly recommend to listen to this piece with a decent pair of headphones or full range speakers since there is a lot going on into the bass frequencies range.   

Pulse | Iteration II

Pulse | Breach

Éclats | Noir is part of a cycle of acousmatic pieces that explore the timbre and creative possibilities given by acoustic musical instruments. In this Éclats, cello recordings are the main sound material along with the sounds of a Doepfer modular synthesizer and outdoor soundscapes of the Brussels region. These three sound protagonists enter into a dialogue of opposition, fusion and metamorphosis. This piece traces a path through different sound matter in mutation where each become, in turn, the main character. This work was made in the studios of Musiques et Recherches. 
Cello: Émilie Girard-Charest
Image: Suite Nounours, Riopelle
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Éclats | Noir fait partie d'un cycle de pièces acousmatiques qui explore le timbre et les possibilités créatives offertes par les instruments de musique acoustiques. Dans cet Éclats, les enregistrements de violoncelle sont le matériau sonore principal. S'y ajoute des sons d'un synthétiseur modulaire Doepfer et des prises de son naturalistes de la région Bruxelloise. Ces trois protagonistes sonores entrent en dialogue d'opposition, de fusion et de métamorphose. Cette pièce trace un chemin au travers différentes matières en mutation qui deviennent chacune, à tour de rôle, le personnage principal. Cette œuvre a été réalisée dans les studios de Musiques et Recherches.
Violoncelle : Émilie Girard-Charest
Image: Suite Nounours, Riopelle

Éclats | Noir

Pierre-Luc Lecours is a composer and multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal (Canada). His artistic practice covers many different mediums and aesthetics, ranging from music to video and performance. His work is characterized by a search for expressiveness in projects exploring themes related to nature, social phenomena and politics. He draws influences as much from the currents of instrumental and electroacoustic contemporary music as from electronic and experimental music. His performances feature everyday objects combined with traditional instrumentation and annotated musical writing.

After a bachelor’s degree in digital music, Lecours is a candidate for the Master’s in composition at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal under the supervision of Pierre Michaud. As a researcher, he is interested in the interpretation of electronic music, gesture and time management in musical composition. He received a graduate scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (CRSH), the Arsène David Scholarship and the OICRM Master’s Scholarship.

He has received music commissions for film, theater, dance and television. His work has been heard, among others, at the Montreal International Documentary Encounters (RIDM), the Chicago Film Festival, Radio-Canada, Hot Docs and Radio France. His album Paysages Imaginaires will be published in February 2019 under the label Mikroclimat of DAME (CA).

His works have been honored by Exhibitronic 2017, the Composition Contest of the Destellos Foundation 2014, the Young Composers Competition of the SOCAN Foundation 2014 and Time play of CEC 2014 and 2017. His work has been featured in more than 100 international events, including MUTEK (CA), Elektra (CA), Vision of future (US), Futura (FR), Digital Weekender (UK), Sound Space (BE), Seeing Sound (UK), NEXT (SK), BIAN (CA), Akousma (CA), Currents New Media (USA), Muslab (MEX) and Resonances Électriques (FR).

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