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Denis Dufour
composed in collaboration with Thomas Brando
on text by Thomas Brando
Liebestod
2024

acousmatic work
12'12

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« With instrumental as with acousmatic music,
I don’t compose sounds but rather listening itself. »
« En instrumental, comme en acousmatique,
je compose non les sons mais l’écoute. »
Denis Dufour



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Here is a suite of dark and metaphorical sensations conveyed by a speaker from the other side of the looking glass. Any return to existence seems doomed by the embers of an ever-impossible love.
[Thomas Brando]
Voici une suite de sensations sombres et métaphoriques énoncées par un locuteur passé de l’autre côté du miroir. Tout retour à l’existence semble ici condamnée par les braises d’un amour toujours impossible.
[Thomas Brando]

Credits

  • From the cycle Les Acousmalides
  • Realized on computer at the composer’s studio in Brandivy
  • Sound recordings: Denis Dufour
  • Tibetan horn and sung voice: Hém-Ish
  • Voice: Raphael Willenbrock
  • Premiered by Denis Dufour on the Alcôme acousmonium at the Auditorium of the Conservatoire du Grand Chalon, on October 9th, 2025 for the festival Ondes croisées
© S. Berg

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Denis Dufour
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1953 – *

With his morphological and expressive approach to sound, Denis Dufour works on pieces in a state of constant renewal, on ideas that are specific to each piece. The resultant work is like a large fresco in which no themes sound alike, one goes through varied and breathtaking soundscapes, appreciating the sheer imagination though the consistency of his style. By deliberately but effortlessly having his music open to all sounds, Denis Dufour’s approach is that of liberty, independence and diligence. His craftsmanship, very French, is exquisite and mastered; every second of sound is enveloped by a supra-conscious ear, so that his work contains no trace of automatic tools.

Find his complete works at Maison ONA —nearly 200 instrumental, vocal, mixed music and electroacoustic works released successively.
1953 – *

Avec son approche morphologique et expressive du son, Denis Dufour élabore des œuvres toujours renouvelées car portées par des projets à chaque fois singuliers. En résulte un catalogue qui sonne comme une vaste fresque dont aucun motif ne se ressemble, englobant des paysages variés et prenants, une mosaïque de sonorités, de pensées et de couleurs qui permettent d'apprécier autant son imagination que la cohérence de sa démarche. En ouvrant délibérément mais avec naturel sa musique à tous les sons, Denis Dufour œuvre avec liberté, indépendance et rigueur, et avec un souci de l'artisanat si fin qu'il se fait oublier.

Retrouvez chez Maison ONA l’intégralité de son œuvre musicale —instrumentale, vocale, mixte et sur support— soit près de 200 opus progressivement disponibles.