AvatArsSon (1998), 18m11s

commission: Ministère de la Culture (France), Ina-GRM

To “the inventors of the treasure” (Bayle, Berio, Chion, Dufour, Ferrari, Henry, Malec, Parmegiani, Reibel, Risset, Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Teruggi, Varèse, Xenakis, Zanési, and others too numerous to name)

This presents an original aspect of the “new music” (as Schaeffer called it in 1950) one that, thanks to the concept of the sound object, brought about its accession to a multidimensional musical world. But it is above all a metaphor for, and a short cut across, some of the stages of the sound odyssey — heard for itself and for its unveiled “images” (Bayle) — and its performance. It also recalls the fertile guiding drift that allows the attentive ear to discover the furtive traces of homage.

AvatArsSon was realized in 1998 in the Syter studio of Ina-GRM and in the composer’s studio, and it premiered on May 11th, 1998 as part of Ina-GRM’s Cycle acousmatique at the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France in Paris. AvatArsSon was a special commission of the Ministère de la Culture (France) and of Ina-GRM for the 50th anniversary of musique concrète. AvatArsSon was awarded the first prize at the 2nd Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition (Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer) (Pescara, Italy, 1999) and, in a shorter version (14:20), the second prize at Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic, 1998). AvatArsSon was recorded in 2001 on the disc 2°/3° Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Musicale Elettronica Pierre Schaeffer.

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