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[…] Les Poules have been playing together for over a decade, and every passing minute of their long history and musical intimacy. Joane Hétu staked out a minimalist territory of voiceless fricatives and static noises, which she mined over the course of the performance. Diane Labrosse explored a similarly focused territory, while Danielle Palardy Roger’s percussion poured out speechlike with orchestraly various gestures accumulating over time into a complex field. A drama of highly attuned listening slowly emerged full of simultaneous starts, frequent finishing of each others’ sentences, and sudden collective laughter. Occasionally, certain silences were allowed to move with grace to the center of the circle. […]
Cristin Miller, Signal to Noise (USA) [vi-04]
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[…] Des années de recherche, d’expérimentations, de tâtonnements éclairés, de dévouement sans faille à une musique exigeante et inventive. Des années de collaboration avec des musiciens ou artistes qui ont considérablement enrichi leurs vocabulaires sonores, précisé leurs saveurs bruitistes, leurs manières de structurer un propos musical, de construire des pièces introspectives et souvent abstraites. Les voix ne disent plus de textes écrits mais sont devenues des instruments à part entière. L’attention, accrue, est portée sur les textures, la couleur, le potentiel musical du son […]
Steven Hearn in Octopus (France) [vii-03]
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