Quatre machines pour sauver le monde
Léa Boudreau
Programme notes
In January 2019, young students at the Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur school in Montréal took part in a brainstorming exercise to imagine fantastical machines following this theme
The work is divided into four sections with subtitles that match the original titles provided by the students:
- A flying machine that works on pollution and transforms it into clean air
- A robot-machine shaped like an animal to save animals that have no home and live in the streets
- A machine to send all the snow that falls here to the North Pole so that it stops melting
- A boat-submarine-machine to clean the oceans
— Léa Boudreau [English translation
Quatre machines pour sauver le monde [Four Machines to Save the World] was realized in 2019 at the composer’s studio in Montréal and premiered on April 30, 2019 as part of the Ultrasons festival at Salle Claude-Champagne of the Université de Montréal (Québec). Thank you to Samuel Cadieux et his young students at the Jean-Baptiste-Meilleur elementary school in Montréal for their participation and ideas. Quatre machines pour sauver le monde won 3rd prize at the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)’s competition Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) (Canada, 2019).
Premiere
- April 30, 2019, Ultrasons — L’élite numérique 1, Salle Claude-Champagne — Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)
Awards
- 3rd prize, Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2019, Canada
- Special Mention, Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2020, Leuk (Switzerland)
- Composer(s): Léa Boudreau
- Year of composition: 2019
- Duration: 12:27
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD502310005
