The collective ensemble Supermusique featuring key performers from Montréal's musique actuelle scene, including Jean Derome, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Joane Hetu, Danielle Palardy, &c. perform "Sounding the Image", three animated scores composed through the creation of moving images and rendered live in a remarkable concert at Amphiteatre de Gesu, in Montreal in 2019.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2021 Country: Canada Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live at Amphiteatre de Gesu, in Montreal, Canada, in November 2019, by Maxime Audet-Halde.
"SuperMusique and DAME are pleased to present Ensemble SuperMusique - Sonne l'image, an album of three works recorded live in front of an audience in November 2019 (at the dawn of the pandemic). As the name suggests, the pieces on Sonne l'image ("Sounding the Image") were composed in tandem with the creation of images - moving images that then served as animated scores.
Now these works, created with the help of media such as video, animated film and photo montage, are presented here on CD, completely autonomous. They are music that we can but listen to. They have their own life, complete and independent. In them we can make out the musical gestures of the famous Ensemble SuperMusique musicians. They are sonic and magnificent.
However, traces do remain in these pieces of the visual artists who collaborated so closely with their composers; the videographer Pierre Hebert and the multidisciplinary artist Manon de Pauw actually created sounds with the musicians Viviane Houle and Joane Hetu; to say nothing of the fusion of photo montage and music in the piece by Cleo Palacio-Quintin.
These works secretly retain all the contours of their arabesques. They are almost visible. Animated scores, like graphic scores, are at the heart of our practice. They were written or drawn on paper and today they are projected on the screen or iPad. To our eyes and ears they are the scores that are most suited to the sounds of today's music.
As creative musicians we seek to better compose them, as ensemble directors we seek to better analyse and conduct them. With the instrumentalists of the Ensemble SuperMusique, we seek to perfect the performance of them. And we work tirelessly to introduce them to wider audiences who we hope will enjoy them."-Danielle Palardy Roger, Montreal, 2021
Includes an 8 page foldout booklet with text in English and French.