Lemoine PAUSET BRICE - IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI - HAUTE-CONTRE, ENSEMBLE

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Lemoine PAUSET BRICE - IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI - HAUTE-CONTRE, ENSEMBLE

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In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (we turn in the night and are consumed by fire) clearly expresses my concerns regarding the objectification of musical forms from the past, recontextualized in light of the necessities of the current musical situation: the instrumental part makes abundant use of prolation canon techniques, the sung part refers to organum, while the computer functioning during the concert reveals what, without its involvement, would remain latent. In this sense, the technique, also largely employed during the composition of the work, etymologically fulfills its function as the art of making evident, while preserving a rigorously non-spectacular rhetorical situation. I indeed believe it is high time to turn away from the gaudy, sadly pervasive. This pessimistic work will probably be criticized for the fragile co-existence, in its haunting antiphony, of elements and gestures that will seem a priori incompatible — and rightly so. The sung text is taken from the philosophical poem La Vérité by D.-A.-F. de Sade: "Fear made the gods and hope sustained them." The fragments of spoken texts are taken from the complete works of Guy Debord and are sufficiently understandable during the concert not to be included here. They are not meant to please.

The work was composed in memory of Guy Debord.

Author: PAUSET Brice
Discipline/Instrument: haute-contre and ensemble

Medium: Score
Style/Genre: contemporary
Publication date: Jan.-95

Number of pages: 26 (A3)

Referencia marca: 26937