Studioforum
Woche 49 - 02 / 3.12.07 - 13.01.08
Elektroakustische Musik aus Kanada
zusammengestellt von der CEC - Communauté électroacoustique
canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Jef Chippewa (CEC Administrative co-Director)
Jeu de Temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2007 - Top 5
1. Dominic Thibault: Nuit noire, Nuit grise / 2006 / 5:12
2. Georges Forget: Orages D'acier / 2007 / 6:59
3. Thierry Gauthier: Cycles / 2007 / 8:00
4. Olivier Girouard: Le pont du souvenir / 2007 / 5:54
5. Félix Lebrun-Paré: La volonté du periscope / 2007 / 6:22
Jeu de Temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2006 - Cache 2006
1. Jean-Michel Dumas: Gris (étude narrative #2) / 2005 / 07:11
2. Philippe-Aubert Gauthier: Au-delà des apparences / 2005 / 07:30
3. Priscille Gendron: Camille / 2005-2006 / 07:37
1st place JTTP 2006
4. Myriam Hamer-Lavoie: Et pluie souffle... / 2005 / 06:24
5th place JTTP 2006
5. Adis Husejnagic: Transfigured / 2006 / 07:57
6. Yota Kobayashi: Reminiscence / 2006 / 05:17
3rd place JTTP 2006
7. Stefan Kozminchuk: The mind is the voice / 2006 / 07:30
4th place JTTP 2006
8. Etienne Legast: Colonies / 2005 / 06:47
9. Raphaël Néron B.: Toons / 2005 / 07:59
2nd place JTTP 2006
10. Joshua Zubot: Land of the Bowl / 2006 / 07:06
Zu den Künstlern des Jeu de Temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2007 - Top 5
Dominic Thibault: Nuit noire, Nuit grise
Vast is the night. It stretches, spreads, reabsorbs. An inkstain in which to drown. A wandering cycle to cradle our
dreams and nightmares. Remembering only its darkness would be to underestimate it. A wonderful breach in time where
blurred boundaries, laws of shadows, fleeting frenzy, everything mixes. The nuances fade and give way to grey.
Structure articulated around a simple gesture: question-waiting-response. A game of opposition and interaction between
familiar and synthesized materials. Already at a very young age DOMINIC THIBAULT is caught by a mysterious attraction
to music. After a few years on the white and black keys, the guitar and its rebellious side begin to interest him. This
passion would lead him to Saint-Laurent College where, thanks to Michel Tétreault, he discovers composition and sonic
creation. In 2005, Thibault begins his Bachelor's degree in electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal
with Robert Normandeau and Jean Piché as his professors. His interests in acousmatic music and interdisciplinary works,
programming and spatialization phenomena drive him to compose new musical forms. At the moment he is working on a number
of artistic projects including a series of interdisciplinary works created in collaboration with Jocsan Rivera, and a
multimedia installation with visual artist Paul-Antoine Gauvreau, in addition to devoting himself to acousmatic art.
Dominic Thibault is also actively involved in the university's cultural scene as coordinator of CECO, the student composer
group (Cercle des étudiants compositeurs), and more recently as studio technician for the International Laboratory for
Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS).
Georges Forget: Orages d'acier
Orages d'acier is principally inspired by two works: the book of the same name by Ernst Jünger, where the author describes
his experiences in combat during the First World War, as well as Terrence Malick's Film La ligne rouge, which has as its
backdrop the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal. These two authors virtually dictated the piece to me: in this short version my
objective was to sublimate two powerful moments in war: the latent anxiety, the strained boredom of waiting, giving way
to the tumultuous attack and chaos.
Orages d'acier is dedicated to my father. Thanks to Ka•s Demers, Nathanaël Ç Swiss Knife È Lécaudé, Martin Marier. French
composer living in Québec GEORGES FORGET began his studies with Christian Eloy at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux in the
purest acousmatic tradition. During his Masters, with Robert Normandeau, he evolved towards a more melodic approach to
electroacoustics. A multi-talented composer, his work can be heard in a number of theatre, video and documentary filme
projects in Europe as well as in North America. Presently working towards his Doctorate under the direction of Isabelle
Panneton and Jean Piché, Georges Forget continues to explore the use of melodic motives expanded to include the
morphological characteristics of sound as the foundational element of the unity and formal perceptability of the work. His
interdisciplinary project involves developing tools which allow for greater "sensitivity" in the exchanges between
machine and musician. Georges Forget is a recipient of the Québec Societal and Cultural Research Fund.
Thierry Gauthier: Cycles
Cycles is an expressionistic acousmatic piece, a minimalist and repetitive yet complex piece. This convolutive work could
be cold and static, but signs of life germinate from within the mechanics: chaos attempts to disrupt this inaccessible
universe. Built on cyclic revolutions, the piece is composed using microsounds and small sonic particles that are
accumulated, repeated, and granulated through the intervention of microloops. THIERRY GAUTHIER has a diploma in
computer-assisted sound design (Musitechnic, 1998) and a Bachelor's in Electroacoustic Composition (Université de Montréal,
2007). This eclectic composer distinguishes himself through his stylistic diversity and experimental techniques. He has
received numerous commissions and composes and produces music for films, videos, television series, documentaries,
installations and multidisciplinary performances. He has performed in over 250 concerts around the world and his works
can be heard on over twenty albums. He received an Honorable Mention at the international competition for electroacoustic
composition, Musica Nova (Czech Republic, 2006).
Olivier Girouard: Le pont du souvenir
The white of suspended snow and glints of light from a shimmering sky was the inspiration for Le pont du souvenir. I wanted
to give voice to the raw materials of the bridge: the metallic structure, wind whipping a steel cable, cars, footsteps in
the snow. The violin represents the fragmented path of a person crossing the bridge. Outside and inside. To imbalance
listening. The bridge as a resonant object, as a necessary passage, suspended between two shores, an opening to
contemplation. OLIVIER GIROUARD seeks to translate music into movement. His compositions explore traditional instruments
filtered digitally and presented in "noisescapes" and impressionistic soundscapes. He collaborates with artists from
different disciplines, such as dance, sound art, video, sculpture and printmaking. This fall he will begin a masters
degree in electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under Yves Daoust and Louis Dufort.
Félix Lebrun-Paré: La volonté du périscope
La volonté du périscope is a sort of allegory on the return trip between the sun's haze and reality, overlapping echoes of
daydreams and night reveries. Leaving the vast space of the northern coast for a squalid Montréal basement, F ... LIX
PAR ... finally escapes through an electroacoustic window. A window which offers a view over his many interests: double
bass, pop music, science, salt deserts and authentic redheads.
Zu dem Projekt JTTP
A large multi-leveled project of the CEC - Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community,
JTTP is aimed at promoting and celebrating new electroacoustic works from young and/or emerging sound artists/composers
from (or living in) Canada. JTTP is an annual project and was launched in 2000. Leading up to the May 1 deadline each year,
a wide Call-for-Submissions is sent out across Canada and internationally to reach as many people and communities as
possible. As far as eligibility goes, a "young and/or emerging sound artist/composer" is someone who is likely to be
continuing studies in an educational facility or possibly someone for whom there has been little or no national or
international recognition of their work and potential in the short period of time that they have been involved in the
field. The CEC has an open and inclusive policy in regards to stylistic, formal and ¾sthetic interests and this openness
is reflected in the make-up of the jury: acousmatic and soundscape composers, sound and sound installation artists,
performers and more. Every possible effort is made to ensure equal gender representation on the jury. The jury members
discuss and rate the submissions according to technical, æsthetic and formal criteria, and the top five selected composers
are awarded various prizes and a compilation CD is pressed wich features the top 1011 works selected by the jury. A look
at the individual components of JTTP shows how the main "pillars" of the CEC's activities are intimately interrelated: the
annual JTTP project (since 2000); the quarterly electronic journal for electroacoustics eContact! (now in its tenth year); and the on-going online Jukebox SONUS (2000+ works as of November 2007).
- Internet Promotion. Each year an issue of eContact! highlights the larger JTTP project. Programme and biographical notes
for all submissions are featured, as well as a list of the jury members, Project Donors, Project Partners and Media
Partners. All works are housed in and available through SONUS.
- Prizes and Awards. The composers of the top five works selected by the jury are awarded more than $2000 in prizes CEC
memberships, cash prizes, CDs, DVDs, books, and journals donated to the project by individual and institutional Project
Partners.
- Cache CD Distribution. The top 1011 pieces from each year's JTTP project (the number of works which will fit onto a
single CD), are pressed to the Cache compilation CD, which is distributed and promoted internationally.
- International Broadcast and Concert Play. JTTP Media Partners play the top 5 works from the competition as well as
selections from, or in many cases, the entire Cache CD once it is released.
In the 2003 edition of JTTP, the CEC invited the UK's Sonic Arts Network (SAN) to collaborate on the project. That year we
received submissions both from Canada and the UK, and Cache 2003 was a double-CD: one with the top Canadian works, the
other with the top UK works. A similar collaboration is being negociated for the 2008 or 2009 edition. Through the
various promotional activities related to the project, JTTP participants gain recognition, support and exposure in the
national and international scene. Several of the top-placing participants in past editions of JTTP have gone on to win
prizes in other renowned electroacoustic competitions internationally, such as Bourges, Métamorphoses and the SOCAN
Foundation Awards. More detailed information on the project is available by simply surfing around the JTTP area of the
CEC's website and in this document. All Cache CDs are
available through empreintes DIGITALes.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy listening to the top five works from this year's edition of JTTP and the ten works
featured on Cache 2006 (see below for track details).
Jef Chippewa
CEC Administrative co-Director
22 November, 2007
JTTP 2006
JTTP 2007
CREDITS
JTTP is a project of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community
Project Managers: Jef Chippewa & Yves Gigon
Web Site: Yves Gigon
Translation: Dominique Bassal, Jef Chippewa
Project Consultation: PeP (Productions electro Productions)
JTTP is supported by the SOCAN Foundation's Core Funding Programme, Concordia University, The Canada Council for the
Arts, empreintes DIGITALes, several individual and institutional Partners and by CEC members.
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