Altered Grey
2010 | cello and electronics (9'10")
Written for cellist Émilie Girard-Charest.
The work’s electroacoustic score is elaborated following different operations based on sampling frequencies, unfolding speeds as well as transformations made to soundfiles themselves. Among the sonorous origins one finds a turntable, a tape recorder, the sound of an electric fence as well as cello recordings. One hears in the spoken introduction various excerpts from a text by Howard Philip Lovecraft translated in Swedish: …grey… …decay… …fragile… …small pieces… …crack and fall off…all the while… …body… …could not bring… …touch upon… …but he looked at what had once been… …a face… …his friends… …face… …what was it…
Selected performances: The Tank (NYC, US), La Société de Curiosités (Paris, FR), La Sala Rossa (Montreal, CA), L’envers (Montreal, CA), La Passe (Montreal, CA), Wilder & Davis (Montreal, CA), Fylkingen (Stockholm, SE), MuTeFest (Helsinki, FI).
Released on: “Émilie préfère le chant” (Ambiances Magnétiques, 2016).