La rage
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Programme notes
A piece for all the clean-cut punks: If their hair is less a mark of their distress, their cynicism is as violent a cry of disillusion.
A reading of Louis Hamelin’s novel La rage (1989).
La rage (rage):
ravished land, expropriated for flying steel;
ravished people, castrated of their identity;
youth wasted in seduction and hiding;
intelligence betrayed by a culture of beauty;
cynical for survival.La rage (rabies):
tiny germ, destructive incubation, death by the drop…
… explosion, a cyst bursts, the pus of hate flows.
Death for survival.
[vii-09]
La rage [Rage] was realized in 2004-05 at the studios of the Electroacoustics sector of Université de Montréal and at the composer’s studio. It was premiered by Stefan Schneider on March 5, 2005 at Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, at the end of a week’s worth of on-location rehearsals and fine-tuning. Thanks
Premiere
- March 5, 2005, Stefan Schneider, drum set • Concert, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce — Botrel, Montréal (Québec)
- Composer(s): Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
- Year of composition: 2004-05
- Instrumentation: drum kit (free jazz musician), processing, interactive processing and 8-channel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
Movements
Les jeux sont faits
- Movement of: La rage
- Duration: 19:02
- ISRC: CAD500911002
Brûlé
- Movement of: La rage
- Duration: 12:21
- ISRC: CAD500911003
Incubation
- Movement of: La rage
- Duration: 12:30
- ISRC: CAD500911004
La rage
- Movement of: La rage
- Duration: 5:08
- ISRC: CAD500911005
