Constellation I
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
Programme notes
To Françoise Barrière and Christian Clozier
Constant spiral, opposing, conciliating…
Oscillations of the eternity of time…
By analogy, Constellation I is an artificial association of structures (masses, objects, layers…) in strong contrast, each of which, while emphasizing particular elements of the electroacoustical musical language, has a formal profile clearly marked in space and time.
Constellation I, while not a similar electroacoustic version, adopts more or less the same structural organization as an earlier work, Mandala I, for five instrumentalists. Also based on the theory of the mandala, Constellation I depends essentially on the principle of the unification of highly contradictory forces. Montage objects with a high energy potential articulate and fuse together the nine contrasting moments of the piece, which, however, keep their own configuration in a vast gravitational movement.
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Constellation I was realized in June 1981 in the studio of the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB—now IMEB—France) and premiered on June 9th (or 10th
Premiere
- June 9, 1982, Synthèse 1982
: Concert, Bourges (Cher, France)
- Composer(s): Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
- Year of composition: 1981
- Duration: 18:41
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Commission: GMEB
- ISRC: CAD500114620
