Francis Dhomont: Les Moirures du temp

Recording from Other Minds archive by composer Francis Dhomont, Les Moirures du temp (The Shimmering Ripples of Time)

Les Moirures du temps (The shimmering ripples of time) (1999, rev. 2001)
In the same way that the eye perceives the changing play of light on the various shapes and textures, the ear picks out the sparkles and shimmers that the minute variations of related sounds can produce. Uneven flattening of the grain, dull and bright areas, wavy parts, changing, gleaming. Reflections. These terms, borrowed from our visual perception, find their equivalents in sound: changes of a spatial nature become alterations of time. Much of the processing of the material in Les Moirures was realized in Paris with the INA-GRMs SYSTER real-time system. Certain sound types and features particularly meaningful are privileged, such as the harmonic timbre, percussion/resonance, accumulation, movement (trajectories, swirling) and contrasts of dynamics: the very things that give sound a texture and that make it shimmer.
Francis Dhomont

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