Zone d’exclusion
Roxanne Turcotte
Programme notes
Fukushima, March 11, 2011
Harmonics emerge from the main tone (shakuhachi), and then fly around, randomly pushed by the nightmare, eventually leaving only a few recurring notes mixed in with the resounding disaster. Muted music comes to haunt us with memories of raw earth. The only thing we can catch is the sound of angels. A beat-driven tune created by loops of shakuhachi micro-samples and bass frequency sounds become a call to death, anguish, and disorder, before they get slowly deconstructed. That is humanity’s destiny
— Roxanne Turcotte [English translation
Zone d’exclusion [Exclusion Zone] was realized in 2013 at the composer’s studio (Studio Séducson) in Montréal for the project Meanwhile, in Fukushima… — www.fukushima-open-sounds.net — led by Dominique Belaÿ. It can be heard online since October 8, 2013.
Premiere
- October 8, 2013, Meanwhile, in Fukushima…
- Composer(s): Roxanne Turcotte
- Year of composition: 2013, 14
- Duration: 4:34
- Instrumentation: shakuhachi and fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD501410006
