Du libe tu?
Elsa Justel
Programme notes
“The Gods have become machines. And machines think. They do, therefore they are
; they build, therefore they act; they act, therefore they live. They have the movement, breath and style of life. Let us close our eyes to better see them. [noise] At the end of such a journey, the only thing that matters is courage, imagination, and intelligence; where Man shall stop, tired, uneasy with all his conquests; where he shall remember that a single word — the key to comprehension — means both to listen and to understand. That musician will make anything his own, be it God, table or toilet. With the same musical ear, he will spy on the nightingale’s modulations, the breath of machines; and from tropical birds, he will be able to create his own score.” — Pierre Schaeffer, excerpt from the conference “Retour aux sources”, Festival de la Recherche organized by RTF, Paris (France), May 26, 1960.
To you, o great provocative man, o boy looking for trouble, I answer back with the same breath of machines — those capricious Gods — untroubled by my foolish witticisms, because you gave me the crazy courage that carried the imagination, this boldness allowing me to create illusions, without restraint nor compromise.
The title Du libe tu
— Elsa Justel [English translation
Du libe tu
Premiere
- May 31, 1996, Synthèse 1996
: Hommage-Tombeau de Schaeffer, Théâtre Jacques-Cœur, Bourges (Cher, France)
- Composer(s): Elsa Justel
- Year of composition: 1996
- Duration: 2:14
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: IMEB
- ISRC: CAD500720700
