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“This Cycle celebrates sound (a major discovery of the twentieth century) and concrete music. It is a fiftieth-anniversary homage to the inventiveness of Pierre Schaeffer, who clearly created an upheaval in the world of music that has had no precedent. Drawing on the same sound material which was forged from the first movement of Schaeffer’s Étude aux objets, as well as from a personal collection of sounds that have been stored away over the years, these four pieces go through a process where they develop out of each other, question each other, echo each other, and complete each other through allusions, commentaries, metonymies, and continuations. With poetic freedom they both evoke a historic journey and propose a connection between the object of sage Schaefferian observation and the wildest “metamorphologies” of sound art. Years after its composition, Novars, the third part of this cycle but the first to be composed, remains the section around which the entire work turns. Cycle du son (Cycle of Sound) premiered on November 22nd, 1998 as part of the 5th L’espace du son Festival acousmatique international in Brussels (Belgium).” Francis Dhomont
Né en 1926, Francis Dhomont découvre les possibilités de la musique concrète dès la fin des années 40. Depuis 1963, il ne compose que des musiques concrètes. Il vit à Montréal où il a enseigné à l’Université jusqu’en 1996. Ce cycle est une célébration du son et de la musique concrète. “Puisant dans un même matériel sonore (“Etude aux objets” de Pierre Schaeffer), ces 4 pièces rebondissent sans arrêt l’une sur l’autre, s’interpellent, se répondent en échos, se complètent”. “Objets retrouvés” (1996), “AvatArsSon” (1998), “Novars” (1989), Phonurgie” (1998).