Le contrat
Gilles Gobeil, René Lussier
Programme notes
First of all, it must be said that we are friends
So we responded enthusiastically to a commission to create a collaborative work and to do so we light-heartedly cashed a first installment from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Our project
We preferred to give ourselves a more realistic timeline (i.e. unbearably slow) and this snail pace allowed us to honor our common obligations seven years straight. However, the project changed along the way. Many chapters were dropped
Along the way, we presented three unfinished versions
We could have spent thousands more hours on this project, because, let’s admit it, we grew fond of the slow pace, but everything must come to an end. And here’s the final version.
Clauses of Le contrat [The Contract]
Le contrat was realized between 1996 and 2003 at the composers’ studios, mixed at Martin M Messier’s studio and premiered on 15 October 2003 as part of the Rien à voir (14) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO in Montréal. It was commissioned by Jean-François Denis for empreintes DIGITALes with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). Thanks to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Charles Gounod, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, René Clair, Herman Melville, Giovanni Papini, August Strindberg, Maxime Gorki, Martin M Messier, Paule Marier, Mario Rodrigue, Audrey Limoges-Gobeil, François Gauthier, Pierre Labbé, Réseaux des arts médiatiques, Michel Levasseur and the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM).
Premiere
- October 15, 2003, Rien à voir (14)
: Associations libres, Espace Go, Montréal (Québec)
- Composer(s): Gilles Gobeil, René Lussier
- Year of composition: 1996-2003
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média / Yul média
- Commission: empreintes DIGITALes (Jean-François Denis), with support from the CCA
Movements
Les remparts
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 1:05
- ISRC: CAD500317310
La gageure
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 5:27
- ISRC: CAD500317320
Le chapelet
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:58
- ISRC: CAD500317330
La nuit la plus longue
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 11:54
- ISRC: CAD500317340
La forêt
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 3:36
- ISRC: CAD500317350
Le cabinet d’étude
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 6:11
- ISRC: CAD500317360
Rats et contrat
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 3:28
- ISRC: CAD500317370
Le premier baiser
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:14
- ISRC: CAD500317380
L’amour pointe
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:14
- ISRC: CAD500317380
Le lavoir
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 3:09
- ISRC: CAD500317390
Le flagorneur
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 3:05
- ISRC: CAD500317400
La chambre de Marguerite
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:43
- ISRC: CAD500317410
Le duel
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:59
- ISRC: CAD500317420
Les bijoux
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:15
- ISRC: CAD500317430
La caverne
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 1:37
- ISRC: CAD500317440
Le jardin
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 4:05
- ISRC: CAD500317450
Les chevaux noirs
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 4:05
- ISRC: CAD500317450
L’entremetteuse
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 4:05
- ISRC: CAD500317450
La cathédrale
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 5:39
- ISRC: CAD500317460
L’écolier
- Movement of: Le contrat
- Duration: 2:11
- ISRC: CAD500317470
