Matières
Todor Todoroff
Programme notes
For Matières [Materials], composed for the publication Le corps de l’espace, les nouveaux matériaux dans l’architecture depuis 1850 [The Body in Space
It seemed essential to me to return to the sources of musique concrète and to keep the sonic characteristics of the materials and of the spaces in which they resonate untouched. The recordings were therefore made on analog magnetic tape and no effects or processing techniques were used other than slowing down or speeding up the play rate and reversing playback direction. All reverberations were naturally-occuring.
In the course of editing and mixing, however, I tried to avoid anecdotal references (no sounds of footsteps nor creaking or slaming doors) in order to concentrate on the sound morphologies and energies revealed by different gestures, as well as on reverberation lengths, changes of acoustical space and contrasts between close and distant sounds. Chimeric spaces were thus created, where gestures dialogue with materials.
— Todor Todoroff [English translation
Matières was realized in 2003 at the ARTeM (Art, recherche, technologie et musique [Art, Research, Technology, and Music]) studio in Brussels (Belgium) and premiered on December 13, 2003 at the Chapelle de Verre de Fauquez in Braine-le-Comte (Belgium). The piece was commissioned by the Centre culturel du Brabant wallon (CCBW) in Court-Saint-Étienne (Belgium).
Premiere
- December 13, 2003, Lancement du livre Le corps de l’espace — les nouveaux matériaux dans l’architecture depuis 1850, Chapelle de Verre de Fauquez, Braine-le-Comte (Belgium)
- Composer(s): Todor Todoroff
- Year of composition: 2003
- Duration: 9:50
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Centre culturel du Brabant wallon (CCBW)
- ISRC: CAD501910036
