Comme le vent c'est nu c'est de l'encre (op.33), for ensemble and electronics - 2019

Comme le vent c'est nu c'est de l'encre (op.33), for ensemble and electronics - 2019
Commissioned by Ircam/Centre Pompidou
Ensemble L'instant donné
Computer Music Design, Eric maestri and Benoit Meudic
Piece composed at the Ircam studios in Paris and performed at Centre Pompidou during Manifeste Festival 2019, June 15th 2019.
Live recording of the premiere
Sound engineer, Sylvain Cadars
Computer music design, Benoit Meudic
Interpretation live of the electronics, Eric Maestri
Grande Sale Centre Pompidou
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This piece is designed as an invention from the sounds of wind. The initial idea consists in the imitation of the wind, which constitutes in sound and metaphorical terms the idea on which I organize this music. This type of imitation is sonic but also temporal. Nothing comes back as such. The only rule of composition is not to return to the musical ideas already expressed. Starting from this intuition, I advance through associations of ideas and flow of consciousness. In this way I create sound images. These images follow one another in a time that could potentially last forever. I take a sample of this time, in which a sound emerges that results from the coexistence of instruments, electronic and environmental sounds. I organize this coexistence and I interpret it looking for points of contact. In this way the sound images follow one another as if they were carried by the wind. These images are like dreams that appear when I make the effort to perceive the contact between sounds and to think how this music would be if it continued towards a time that goes beyond me and comes from before the composition. I try to free my imagination by trying to know what I would have written if I had written it before.

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:) Bravo Eric