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Parasiti fluxique

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek

Programme notes

In several underwater animal species, the juveniles are very tiny and live as part of the plankton until they reach their adult age. For Parasiti fluxique, I wanted to create an imaginary environment that would make the voice of micro-plankton audible. I imagine it as tiny isolated points, fragile parasites adrift in the vastness of the ocean. I explored a gamut of micro-sounds, impulses and “slimy” sonorities, through modular synthesis, to make these tiny larval beings heard. I am trying to gradually make these frail micro-sounds “grow” into denser, stronger sounds, like juveniles reaching their adult size. Meanwhile, human activities are detectable, including industrial fisheries, which makes it hard for adult species to survive. In my soundscape, some individuals manage to slip through the net and go on perpetuating their species.

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek [English translation: François Couture, xii-23]


Parasiti fluxique was realized in 2023 at Studio Blue Spider in Montréal (Québec) from recordings made in 2022 at the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm (Sweden). Thanks to the entire EMS team. The realization of this piece was made possible thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).

  • Composer(s): Ana Dall’Ara-Majek
  • Year of composition: 2023
  • Cycle: Radiolaria
  • Duration: 5:47
  • Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • ISRC: CAD502410057