Tout en rouge
Roxanne Turcotte
Programme notes
A tribute to the exceptional young generation of 2012.
“Two hundred and fifty thousand people, that’s not a springtime matter, that’s a people’s matter, a world matter.”
— Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
My music started to gain a political colour in 2012, in reaction to human aberrations, after I produced a soundtrack for the Amnesty International event 10 ans de Guantanamo, 10 heures de prise de parole. Tout en rouge is music concerned with social, political, and environmental realities. Protest acousmatics
March 22, 2012. An exceptional day, unseasonably warm, incredibly sunny. April 22
Tout en rouge is made of field recordings made during the 2012 demonstrations, plus a few archives around the “Maple Spring” social crisis and ongoing struggles that remain current to this day… I remember everything in red. And you
— Roxanne Turcotte [English translation
Tout en rouge [Everything in Red] was realized in 2012-14 at the composer’s studio (Studio Séducson) in Montréal, and was broadcasted on web radio and through various social media after the events of Spring 2012. A special thanks to René Gour for the radio broadcast (CIBL FM), to François Doyon for snippets of guitar, and to Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois for authorizing the use of his audio quote.
Premiere
- October 24, 2015, L’Espace du son 2015
: Roxanne Turcotte, Théâtre Marni, Brussels (Belgium)
- Composer(s): Roxanne Turcotte
- Year of composition: 2012-14
- Duration: 4:33
- Instrumentation: fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD501410007
