Vol d’Arondes
Francis Dhomont
Programme notes
To Annette Vande Gorne
Provence. A summer evening, the window open wide on the slowly darkening sky. Through this deep, blemishless blue, the flight of swallows
It is a moment of pure, contemplative happiness, barely disturbed by a few familiar cares, which are quickly chased away. I think of Verlaine’s “The sky above the roof, so blue, so calm…”
This is music of memory
The space, too, belongs to memory.
— Francis Dhomont [English translation
Vol d’Arondes [Flight of Swallows] was realized in 1999 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée multitrack studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain (Belgium) and premiered on November 21, 1999 during the 6th International Acousmatic Festival L’Espace du son in the XL Théâtre du Grand Midi (Brussels, Belgium). It was commissioned by Musiques & Recherches. The revised 8-channel version (2001) premiered on 15 December 2001 at Espace GO in Montréal as part of the Rien à voir (10) concert series presented by Réseaux.
Premiere
- November 21, 1999, L’Espace du son 1999
: Créations octophoniques, XL Théâtre du Grand Midi, Brussels (Belgium) - December 15, 2001, Premiere of the revised 8-channel version
: Rien à voir (10): concert solo: Nature / Artifice, Espace Go, Montréal (Québec)
Awards
- Honorable Mention, International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo 2005, São Paulo (Brazil)
About this sound recording
This version is a stereophonic reduction of the 8-channel original realized in June 2002.
- Composer(s): Francis Dhomont
- Year of composition: 1999, 2001
- Duration: 11:25
- Instrumentation: 8-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Musiques & Recherches
- ISRC: CAD500315960
