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Vox Alia III — Vox intima

Werner Lambersy, Annette Vande Gorne

Programme notes
To Alice Eskenasi, my goddaughter

“Perhaps writing [composing] is a way of being silent?

Werner Lambersy

This short poem by Werner Lambersy sums up how I feel about the unique activity that is creating music. I therefore appropriated it by choosing to make a choral reading of it with my own voice and to accentuate the meaning of the words by some madrigalizations of sound or spatial treatments. The slow, stable tempo is based on certain spectral moments of Treize couleurs du soleil couchant (1978) by Tristan Murail.

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Vox Alia III — Vox intima was realized in 2022-23 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain (Belgium) and was premiered on February 1st, 2023 during the concert Vox Alia — Une autre voix, Son-sens at Espace Senghor in Brussels (Belgium). The work was realized with support from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Service de la musique classique et contemporaine du Service de la Création artistique).

Premiere

  • February 1, 2023, Vox Alia — Une autre voix, Son-sens, Le Senghor, Brussels (Belgium)

Awards

About this sound recording

This stereophonic Ambisonic reduction was produced from the original multichannel version by Julien Guillamat in January 2025 at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain (Belgium).