Robert Marcel Lepage: La machine à explorer le tempo (CD): description

La machine à explorer le tempo

Robert Marcel Lepage

La machine à explorer le tempo

Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 116 | 2003

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La machine à explorer le tempo

image: Félix Lepage

design: Jean-François Denis

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Composer: Robert Marcel Lepage
Performer: La Nef

Recorded live at the Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques 2002, La Machine à explorer le tempo, Robert Marcel Lepage’s latest release, is a work written for the early music ensemble La Nef. Lepage and his 10 musicians are lively, derisive and delinquent: they manage to squeeze viola da gamba, banjo, sackbut and slide guitar into a ripping sound orgy that moves from tango to country and a dilapidated form of waltz!

La Machine à explorer le tempo (The Tempo Machine) will allow our courageous chrononauts to visit three music-time Paradoxes: passing Time, running Time and slipping Time. Each dive will take approximately twenty minutes. Our inspiration tanks allow up to 33 1/3 minutes of uninterrupted diving, but in order to preserve the security of our adventurers and our audience, we will keep to the thirds of an hour as measured by the marking standard at the Time Institute in Paris. The instrumental configuration of our ensemble forms the body of our Machine. It can be driven by many means, such as reading, improvisation, and even auto-pilot. We have two, three, and four-stroke engines fueled by rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and noise patterns.

First Paradox: Time passes… and the clocks bark. We will leave present Time in destination of the first Paradox at 9:03 PM on March 8th, 2003. Our schedule points out that we will be running on fin-de-siècle musical motifs such as: Confitures de sable, Le Tamponneur de triolet, La Nef en bateau, etc.

Second Paradox: Time flies… like a butterfly. We will begin a second dive toward flying Time at 9:25 PM, unless a delay is necessary, by seguing into North-American ballads like: Le Bivouac, Le Pied-Tendre, La Ballade des patates sucrées and On tue bien les chevaux… que faire des banjos?

Third Paradox: Time slips by… we must seal it. If Time allows us, a third dive will begin at around 9:45 PM and take us toward Hygiène des rebuts, Le Chat dans le tordeur and also Oups! J’ai échappé ma boîte d’accords majeurs. We’ll do everything in our power to catch up on lost Time, knowing very well that Time needs time from time to time. Nevertheless, this is the only show with an expiry date that promises a future discovery.

1

Premier Paradoxe (2003)

1

Le Temps passe… et les horloges aboient

3m01s
2

Confitures de sable

5m04s
3

Le Tamponneur de triolet

5m46s
4

La Nef en bateau

4m52s
5

La Valse d’un rien de temps

3m35s
6

Chronotopie du Cancer

3m49s
7

Deuxième Paradoxe (2003)

7

Le Temps file… à l’indienne

1m56s
8

Le Bivouac

2m28s
9

Le Pied-tendre

3m54s
10

Le Coup d’archet est toujours plus vert dans la cour du voisin

1m58s
11

On tue bien les chevaux… que faire des banjos?

3m40s
12

La Ballade des patates sucrées

2m28s
13

Troisième Paradoxe (2003)

13

Le Temps fuit… il faut le colmater

1m03s
14

Hygiène des rebuts

1m26s
15

Le Chat dans le tordeur

3m04s
16

La Villa des loups

2m48s
17

Présentation des musiciens

2m19s
18

Oups! J’ai échappé ma boîte d’accords majeurs!

7m23s

total duration

61m49s

UPC / EAN 771028111626

Robert Marcel Lepage: La machine à explorer le tempo (CD): description

Prices are in Canadian dollars — 1.00 CA$ ~ 0.87 US$ ~ 0.62 € ~ 0.53 £ ~ 82.59 ¥ ~ 1.8 AU$ ~ 4.60 DKK ~ 5.61 NOK ~ 6.79 SEK — and include handling, shipping and applicable taxes.


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