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Miroir des vents
Miroir des vents (2002), 14m23s [excerpt]
Track 1 from Miroir des vents
CD: Collection QB (2009) CQB 0908
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      Miroir des vents (2002), 14m23s
      saxophone quartet
      • Commission: Quasar, with support from the CCA
      • Premiere: January 25, 2002, Quasar • Studio — Musée Juste pour rire (Montréal, Québec)

      My work is inspired by the persistent trajectory of a speck of light moving in the dark. The moving of this thin, bright and continuous stroke, becomes its thread. One can mainly perceive a kaleidoscopic play, where everything reflects in a twisted way, due to distorted mirrors.

      Luc Marcel [English translation: Vincent Collard]

      piste@cqb_0908-1.1 oeuvre@25879 ISRC CAA4J0910196
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      Geyser Ghetto (2005), 9m33s
      saxophone quartet
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      • Commission: Quasar, with support from the CALQ
      • Premiere: May 18, 2005, Quasar • Salle Pierre-Mercure — Centre Pierre-Péladeau (Montréal, Québec)

      I wanted to take the pressure of the earth as one takes the pressure of a human being to measure the stress we causes it. This is a metaphoric journey which will lead you from the centre of the earth to its surface, pushed by magma’s pressure, to be finally thrown to atmosphere though a geyser’s mouth.

      Michel Frigon [English translation: Vincent Collard]

      piste@cqb_0908-1.2 oeuvre@21971 ISRC CAA4J0910197
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      Iskra (2004), 9m24s
      saxophone quartet
      • Commission: Quasar
      • Premiere: May 27, 2004, Quasar • Lion d’or (Montréal, Québec)

      This work, whose title means “spark” in Russian, explores the concept of energy transfer, dragging a simple idea though a “gestation” process resulting blocks of various thicknesses. It can be seen as a metaphor of the anarchical system, in which several connate areas grow organically then finally form a dynamic and interactive network.

      Wolf Edwards

      piste@cqb_0908-1.5 oeuvre@22073 ISRC CAA4J0910201
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      Giuoco Piano (2006), 10m00s
      saxophone quartet
      • Commission: Quasar, with support from the CCA
      • Premiere: February 5, 2006, Quasar • Salle Beverley Webster Rolph — Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Québec)

      Titled after a chess opening, this piece refers to the idea that music fills a vacuum. Like the beginning of a chess game, sound before music is only potentiality. Then to gauge the strengths one must consider all vectors as a whole - moving a piece will always leave an empty square behind. When a sound fills a vacuum, what does it leaves behind?

      Farangis Nurulla-Khoja [English translation: Vincent Collard]

      piste@cqb_0908-1.6 oeuvre@25883 ISRC CAA4J0910202
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      Pulau Dewata (1977; arr. 1983), 12m07s
      saxophone quartet
      piste@cqb_0908-1.7 oeuvre@25884 ISRC CAA4J0910203
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      Le Chant de l’inaudible (2000), 14m56s
      saxophone quartet
      • Commission: Quasar, with support from the CCA
      • Premiere: April 26, 2001, Quasar • La Chapelle (Montréal, Québec)

      Born after my research on multiple sounds on the saxophone, this minimalist work embroided with acoustical phenomenons explores the sound in a slow, continuous movement. This music of colours is lead by the evolution of a very mild stream of breaths which wind and unwind with each other. Purely deploying a layer of sustained sounds, the work expounds the progressive flow of superposition, then a silent evaporation.

      Jean-François Laporte [English translation: Vincent Collard]

      piste@cqb_0908-1.8 oeuvre@22190 ISRC CAA4J0910204

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