Espace / Escape
Francis Dhomont
Programme notes
To Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer
“As soon as we become immobile, we are elsewhere
; we dream in a vast world. Immensity is the movement of immobile man. Immensity is one of the dynamic aspects of peaceful daydreaming.”— Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Space.
Open, intimate, confused spaces. Broken spaces, whirling.
Indecisive edges of the space.
Space-refuge, enclosed, maternal, space of reminiscence and of associations.
Tumult or murmur in the space of a thousand reflections.
Escape.
The flight engenders a vertigo of multiple elsewheres.
Here… There…
Attempted encounter of heterogeneous elements related by two criteria
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Espace / Escape was realized at the composer’s studio in Montréal in 1989 and premiered on November 10, 1989 during the CEC Electroacosutic Days, >convergence<
Premiere
- November 10, 1989, >convergence<
; : Concert 1, Margaret Greenham Theatre — The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff (Alberta, Canada)
Awards
- Mention, Stockholm Electronic Arts Award 1992, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Honorable Mention, Computer Music, Prix Ars Electronica 1993, Linz (Austria)
- Composer(s): Francis Dhomont
- Year of composition: 1989
- Duration: 19:24
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: The Banff Centre for the Arts (Claude Schryer), with support from the CCA
- ISRC: CAD509612620
