Mono no aware
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Programme notes
To Jean-François Laporte
On empathy towards transient things
Making tea
As Okakura Kakuzō said so eloquently in The Book of Tea (1906)
[ix-13]
Mono no aware was realized in 2013 at the composer’s studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield (UK) and premiered by Jean-François Laporte on June 1, 2013 during the concert Totem électrique V in the Studio multimédia of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (Québec). The piece was commissioned by Productions Totem contemporain.
Premiere
- June 1, 2013, Jean-François Laporte, Babel table • Totem électrique
: Totem électrique V, Studio multimédia — Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)
About this sound recording
This version was recorded by Jean-François Laporte in the multichannel studio of the Faculté de musique of the Université de Montréal on June 2, 2013. Thanks to Sylvain Pohu and Jean Piché to have made the sound recording possible.
- Composer(s): Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
- Year of composition: 2013
- Duration: 17:23
- Instrumentation: Babel table, processing, interactive system and multichannel fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Productions Totem contemporain
- ISRC: CAD501310013
