Hi_Res
Louis Dufort
Programme notes
Hi_Res investigates a technology fetish, the kind often featured in B-series science-fiction movies. At the basis of Hi_Res is a text — a short excerpt from the user manual for the Motor Mix MIDI controller — read by Canadian composer Darren Copeland. In a sense, this assumed awkwardness highlights the absurd importance technology has taken in art. So I admit it
— Louis Dufort [English translation
Hi_Res was realized in 2005 at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Germany. A first version premiered on February 11, 2005 during the trans_canada festival at the ZKM’s ZKM_Medientheater. The final version premiered on May 14, 2005, under the provisional title Hi_Res.1, during the Elektra Festival at Usine C in Montréal. The piece was commissioned by the ZKM. My thanks to Ludger Brümmer, the team of the ZKM’s Institut für Musik & Akustik, and Darren Copeland.
Premiere
- February 11, 2005, trans_canada
: Paysages • Landschaften • Landscape, ZKM_Medientheater, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) - May 14, 2005, Elektra 2005
: Concert, Usine C, Montréal (Québec)
- Composer(s): Louis Dufort
- Year of composition: 2005
- Duration: 13:37
- Instrumentation: 5.1-channel fixed medium
- Commission: ZKM
- ISRC: CAD500811180
