Denis Dufour
on text by Marc Jaffeux
on text by Marc Jaffeux
L’Aile de l’abeille
2000
acousmatic work
7'
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« With instrumental as with acousmatic music,
I don’t compose sounds but rather listening itself. »
I don’t compose sounds but rather listening itself. »
« En instrumental, comme en acousmatique,
je compose non les sons mais l’écoute. »
je compose non les sons mais l’écoute. »
Description
fr
What can we say about this new society which, at the turning point of a millennium, wished to rid itself of the stigmas of an unhappy past – if it is not that it failed to take apart the very mechanism of cultures by revealing their objects?
This is the entirely fictional experience to which L’Aile de l’abeille attests. In accordance with the method put forth by the Mécanique Nouvelle et Intelligente from which we hear an extract, seventy-five five-second tableaux present seventy-five (sound) objects from this earlier time. But these objects, these images, don’t resist their naturally kinetic tendency for long, and are brought to life through a continuous movement that reveal forbidden meanings and representations. We then hear a short bite of the secretive trial of the philosopher and linguist Sardupa, filmed on camera in the year 51 after the beginning of Counter-History. What was this city of the mind where everything from the past should have been destined to lose its meaning? And also this observation: meaning always reconstructs itself, and history’s stigmas with it.
[Marc Jaffeux]
This is the entirely fictional experience to which L’Aile de l’abeille attests. In accordance with the method put forth by the Mécanique Nouvelle et Intelligente from which we hear an extract, seventy-five five-second tableaux present seventy-five (sound) objects from this earlier time. But these objects, these images, don’t resist their naturally kinetic tendency for long, and are brought to life through a continuous movement that reveal forbidden meanings and representations. We then hear a short bite of the secretive trial of the philosopher and linguist Sardupa, filmed on camera in the year 51 after the beginning of Counter-History. What was this city of the mind where everything from the past should have been destined to lose its meaning? And also this observation: meaning always reconstructs itself, and history’s stigmas with it.
[Marc Jaffeux]
Que dire de cette société nouvelle, à la charnière d’un millénaire, qui souhaitait se débarrasser des stigmates d’un passé malheureux ? Si ce n’est qu’elle échoua à désamorcer le mécanisme des cultures par la mise à nu de ses objets. C’est, ainsi, de cette expérience, toute fictive, que témoignera L’Aile de l’abeille : soixante-quinze tableaux de cinq secondes exposeront les soixante-quinze objets (sonores) de cette époque passée, selon la méthode fixée par la Mécanique Nouvelle et Intelligente dont nous entendrons un extrait. Mais ces objets, ces images ne résistent pas longtemps à leur tendance cinétique naturelle, qui les anime en ce mouvement continu d’où sens et représentations bannis rejaillissent. Nous est alors livré un court moment du mystérieux procès du philosophe et linguiste Sardupa, filmé en 51 après la Contre-Histoire par un média visuel. Quelle était cette ville, mentale, où toutes choses du passé auraient dû être vouées à perdre sens ? Et ce constat : le sens se reconstruit toujours, et avec lui les stigmates de l’Histoire.
[Marc Jaffeux]
[Marc Jaffeux]
Credits
- Realized on computer at the composer’s studio, 20th arr., Paris
- Sound recording: Denis Dufour and Agnès Poisson
- Voice: Thérèse Clerc, Fatema Mezyane, Jean Pataut
- Premiered at Jardin des Prés Fichaux, Bourges, on June 9th, 2000 for the event Sonneries utopiques pour le prochain millénaire, Synthèse festival
© S. Berg
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Denis Dufour
About
fr
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.
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.
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.