Murmures (2007), 9m00s
I have done my first stay as a professionnal composer in 1987 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio following the invitation by Annette Vande Gorne after a Prize awarded at the Phonurgia-Nova International Competition (France) to compose Rumeurs (place de Ransbeck). This work was based on the ambiguity sound-meaning and was part of a cinema for the ear cycle. Today, 20 years later, I wanted to visit again this Place de Ransbeck (where the studio is located) with today’s studio tools. Rumeurs was composed with high quality but simple analog devices: five tape recorders and a mixing board. Since then, digital devices appeared that allow us to reveal a little bit more of the unheard-of. Already at that time, I was concerned to play with it and to present it to my listeners with some delicacy. Today, whereas it seems that there is no possible discourse other than the howl, it appeared to me that it was necessary to found more details in the grain of the sound and to give it to you without emphasis, with an impressionist touch, in half-tones.
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Murmures was composed at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio an at my personal studio. Sound recordings: Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans, a Foley artist and a composer who lent me her sound objects and her magical gestures.
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Murmures