acousmatic interactions
Program notes:
«[Tweedledee and Tweedledum took Alice by hand] and led her up to where the Red King was sleeping…
“He’s dreaming now,” said Tweedledee,
“and what do you think he’s dreaming about?”…
“[He is] dreaming about you!” Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly.
“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you’d be?”.
“Where I am now, of course,” said Alice.
“Not you!” Tweedledee retorted contemptuously.
“You’d be nowhere. Why, you’re only a sort of thing in his dream!”>
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) – Lewis Carroll
And if (s)he left off dreaming about you… is the third part of my triptych of music works based on feedback; feedback as a sound; feedback as a principle of composition.
An algorithm, or a genetic code, gives birth to a live music organism, that I call an “Ephemeron”.
For this work, Ephemeron’s algorithm is planted through the internet on another computer; a computer being on another place and another city.
A listener is there
A music organism is born to this other space;
the listener is listening and reacting
and by reacting, is acting upon the organism
a conversation is established through the internet;
the music organism communicates with the listener who is reacting spontaneously to the sound.
The conversation is recorded, cut, reworked, re-composed
this is the fruit of this re-composed conversation.
And if I left off dreaming about Ephemeron, where does it suppose it would be?
Photo by Kenneth Rougeau
Concerts
- 3 June 2016 – Cinema Concert of “Art & Science Days 2016”, Bourges.
- 26 March 2016 – Cicada Consort Music Marathon, in the University of Alabama, Moody Concert Hall
- 18 January 2015 – “Electroacoustic Music Days 2014”, Rethimno, Greece