L’envers du temps
Robert Normandeau, Arturo Parra
Programme notes
(The Other Side of Time) Time runs, screams, panics, turns in upon itself and collapses into the abyss it has dug. And so we find ourselves on the other side of Time, where there are other ways to look, listen and exist. Time’s linearity has broken up under the impact
Time ceases to be the implacable tyrant who ruled our existences. It advances, then retreats
As it happens, the guitar part in this piece was created by working backwards through time, since it was the last section of the tape that gave me the key, the ideas and the sonic materials to compose the headlong rush before the impact.
— Catherine Ego, Arturo Parra [English translation
The electroacoustic part of L’envers du temps comes from the acousmatic work Ellipse (1997-99) by Robert Normandeau.
Premiere
- May 15, 1998, Arturo Parra, guitar • FIMAV 1998
: Parr(A)cousmatique, Cégep de Victoriaville, Victoriaville (Québec)
- Composer(s): Robert Normandeau, Arturo Parra
- Year of composition: 1997-99, 2000
- Duration: 10:18
- Instrumentation: guitar and stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD500214950
