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La rupture inéluctable

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

Programme notes
To Heather Roche

Four meditations on our metastable states

Happiness is so fragile, a kind of precarious and improbable balance: a multicolour soap bubble. How can one fully enjoy it despite the vertigo its transience induces? It seems that reflection on impermanence was, and forever will be, at the heart of self-conscience, both for the individual and society. This permanence should soothe me.

[ix-11]


La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] was realized in 2010-11 at the composer’s studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield (UK) and premiered by Heather Roche on November 3, 2011 during the concert live@CIRMMT: Ébène et métal in Montréal (Québec). The piece was commissioned by Heather Roche, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA).

Premiere

  • November 3, 2011, Heather Roche, bass clarinet • live @ CIRMMT: Ébène et métal: Heather Roche, Music Multimedia Room — Pavillon de musique Elizabeth Wirth — Université McGill, Montréal (Québec)

About this sound recording

This version was recorded by Heather Roche in the studios of the University of Huddersfield (UK) on September 18 and 19, 2012.

  • Composer(s): Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
  • Year of composition: 2010-11
  • Duration: 14:20
  • Instrumentation: bass clarinet, processing, interactive system and multichannel fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • Commission: Heather Roche, with support from the CCA
  • ISRC: CAD501310011

Movements

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas

Ecclesiastes

Memento mori

Latin phrase

Timor mortis conturbat me

3rd Nocturn of Matins of the Office of the Dead

Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero

Horace, Odes