La roue
Michel Chion
Programme notes
Premiere
- May 7, 1988, Premiere of the complete cycle
: La roue, Maison Populaire, Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis, France)
- Composer(s): Michel Chion
Works in this cycle
Sambas pour un jour de pluie
Premiere
- June 16, 1985, Synthèse 1985
: Concert, Palais Jacques-Cœur, Bourges (Cher, France)
- Year of composition: 1985, 2014
- Cycle: La roue
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
La machine à passer le temps
Premiere
- March 25, 1972, 9e Festival international d’art contemporain de Royan
: Concert, Royan (Charente-Maritime, France)
- Year of composition: 1972
- Cycle: La roue
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
On n’arrête pas le regret
Premiere
- March 20, 1975, Cycle acousmatique 1975
: Internationale I, Auditorium 104 — Maison de Radio France, Paris (France)
- Year of composition: 1975
- Cycle: La roue
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
La ronde
Premiere
- February 28, 1983, Cycle acousmatique 1983
: Concert, Maison de la radio, Paris (France)
- Writer(s): Michel Chion
- Year of composition: 1982
- Cycle: La roue
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
Nuit noire
In memory of American writer Philip K Dick (1928-1982)
Nuit noire (Black Night) is a nightmare, made up of a series of descents into different levels of dreaming, uneasiness and terror. But it could also be a wakeful night, a sleepless night of anguish leading up to death.
As in my other ‘monodramas,’ Le prisonnier du son or La Tentation de saint Antoine, Nuit noire centers around a single character who endures this nightmare. But in this piece, the anonymous hero can only be heard in moans, groans and sighs, and never emits a clearly articulated sound.
Nuit noire was fashioned from Nuit, the last and longest movement of Diktat, a piece produced in 1979 at the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM). This movement was later modified at the GRM studios to create an autonomous work under this new title.
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Nuit noire was realized in the studios of the GRM and of the GMEM. The work premiered in concert on March 24, 1986, as part of the Ina-GRM’s Cycle acousmatique, at the auditorium of the Maison de Radio France in Paris (France).
Premiere
- March 24, 1986, Cycle acousmatique 1986
: Concert, Grand Auditorium — Maison de Radio France, Paris (France)
- Year of composition: 1979-85
- Cycle: La roue
- Duration: 22:14
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- ISRC: CAD509310680
