Je me souviens 3&4 _NFB

Here is the communiquˆ© for Je me souviens event. dedicated to sound creation at the National Film Board of Canada

contact : Eric Mattson oral@videotron.ca , tel : 514 598-8605

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Communiquˆ© :

Je me souviens, a series of exploratory music events presented over two more days: 22 and 23 May 2008. La Sala Rossa, 4848, boulevard Saint-Laurent 10$

Introduction
Each Je me souviens evening is made up of two parts. The first will enable the audience to listen to archival recordings of exploratory music (electro-acoustic, electronic and experimental). The second part will present four new works by innovative Quebec composers. To my mind, these composers, all of whom are stimulated by experimenting with sound and by the unexpected things that can arise from improvisation and collaboration, are the worthy heirs of those who, in the 1970s, forged the basis of today's work.

Experiments in electro-acoustic and electronic composition from 1950 until the late 1980s in Quebec were carried out for the most part in universities. McGill University and, more precisely, its Electronic Music Studio, the Universitˆ© de Montrˆ©al, Universitˆ© Laval and later Concordia University were places where knowledge went hand in hand with experimentation. At the same time, at the National Film Board of Canada, Norman McLaren carried out sound experiments by working directly on the film's optical sound track. Maurice Blackburn followed in his footsteps a little later and established the Atelier de conception et de rˆ©alisations sonores at the NFB, which was short-lived but of great importance. These institutions were the only places where professors, students, scholars and composers on the look-out for discoveries could analyze developments in electric and later electronic music using modern instruments and to employ them in musical compositions. With the advent of miniaturisation and personal computers, these practices underwent radical changes.

Je me souviens invites you to experience a few fragments of this past and to plunge into an exploration of bygone days in order to better hear and understand what is going on today.

Eric Mattson : curator oral@videotron.ca www.oral.qc.ca

Thanks: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quˆ©bec, Carol Faucher, National Film Board of Canada, La Sala Rossa, all the participants.

Je me souviens 3. NFB

Part 1: an introduction by Mario Gauthier and Rˆ©al La Rochelle to the Atelier de conception et de rˆ©alisations sonores at the National Film Board (NFB). Audio listening of soundtracks and projection of cinematic extracts from the years 1970-1980.

Program 1940 to 1960 : Experimentations and birth of an idea..

Screenings and hearings :

Norman McLaren - L'animateur musicien - 2005

Norman McLaren: expˆ©rimentations inˆ©dites de musique synthˆ©tiques faites sur pellicules C. 1950

McLaren et Maurice Blackburn - Blinkity Blank - 1955Maurice Blackburn extr du film : L'Homme orchestre 2005 Jour aprˆ®s jour, bande-son de M. Blackburn: 1962

Pierre Mercure: Manipulations (Musique de danse rˆ©alisˆ© pour Franˆßoise Riopelle) - 1964 -

McLaren: Synchromie - 1971

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Part 2: four unique live sets, four unreleased works by today's composers.

Alexandre St-Onge (Et Sans)
Eric Normand (p.o.w.e.r)
Ricardo (Ghost Limbs)
skoltz_kolgen

La Sala Rossa, 4848, boulevard Saint-Laurent 10$

Thursday May, 22 . 2008

Doors open at 7:30 pm - Concert starts in time: 8:30 pm

Je me souviens 4. NFB

Part 1: continuation of the program by Mario Gauthier and Rˆ©al La Rochelle dedicated to the Atelier de conception et de rˆ©alisations sonores at the National Film Board of Canada.

Program L'Atelier de conception sonore: breaks and continuity

Screenings and hearings :

Gilles Tremblay vs Maurice Blackburn, 1967, L'eau

Gilles Tremblay - Dimension soleil 1970

Alain Clavier: l'atelier

Alain Clavier - Mˆ©tadata - 1971

Jacques Leduc /musique de Yves Daoust - Le Plan sentimental (extrL'ˆÇge de chaise (extrait de la bande son du film)

Yves Daoust -Quatuor

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Part 2: four unique live sets, four unreleased works by today's composers.

Aun
Steve Bates
Erin Sexton
Martin Tˆ©treault + Michel Langevin (Voivod)

La Sala Rossa, 4848, boulevard Saint-Laurent 10$

Friday May, 23 . 2008

Doors open at 7:30 pm - Concert starts in time: 8:30 pm