Ariane October 24th, 2011 at 20:54:25
Merci d'avoir mis l'enregistrement en ligne. Je suis vraiment contente d'avoir pu entendre ta pièce par ce moyen. J'espère que ta musique sera redonnée bientôt à Montréal et que je pourrai l'entendre en direct.
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for symphonic orchestra
(3 (3rdalso picc.), 3 (3rd : C.A.), 3 (3rd also clar. basse), 2, 1 alto sax, 1 tenor sax / 4231 / timpani, 2 perc. / strings)
Duration: 7:00
Intercosmos : stars, clusters, supernovas, galaxies. Vast spaces moving away, interweaving. Cosmos: order. Orders gathering afar, disrupting our inner order. But why is it so stirring?
Intercosmos is an exploration of music possibilities to evoke outer space, its immensity, its density, its emptiness. A series of variations on the theme of largeness and vastness. Inspired by my own research on the Traité de l'orchestration by Charles Koechlin, I was particularly interested to the notion of sound volume, of the size it can take in space. I wanted to explore it through different blends, different orchestral cosmos, from the discreet space background noise to the spectacular explosions with hundreds of lines going through all directions.
Among all these orders, a longing question returns, only answered by the space emptiness.
Some Koechlin's intuitions on musical timbre seem to be shared by many other humans, even some animals. Is our music listening guided by universal mechanisms, universal cosmos, present everywhere but unknown by anyone?
Université de Montréal Orchestra
Jean-François Rivest, conductor
Merci d'avoir mis l'enregistrement en ligne. Je suis vraiment contente d'avoir pu entendre ta pièce par ce moyen. J'espère que ta musique sera redonnée bientôt à Montréal et que je pourrai l'entendre en direct.