FRANCAIS: Sur le thème de l'eau, la première intuition serait de ré-écouter des pièces pour piano des compositeurs impressionnistes français : Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy.
L’autre source musicale, mais dont les impressionnistes ne disposaient pas il y a cent ans, est d’exploiter des enregistrements électroacoustiques de sons concrets produits par l’eau dans des scènes de la nature et de la vie. Ces sons pourraient directement illustrer les photographies réalisées en pleine nature par Bernard Sustrac. Ils re-créent virtuellement des ambiances acoustiques immersives convaincantes pour l’auditeur, expérimentant les vertus psychiques intrinsèques des bruits d’écoulement de l’eau, apaisants, vivifiants, voire saisisants.
Mais plutôt que de proposer une expérience sonore virtuelle réaliste, il s’agit ici d’emmener l’auditeur dans un rêve de scènes imaginaires, où se répondent des éléments sonores choisis, travaillés et orchestrés. Ainsi la composition « L'eau » se déroule selon cinq tableaux, exprimant des changements de sensations résultant de la variété des natures et dynamiques de l’eau, l’un des quatre éléments avec l’air, la terre et le feu.
ENGLISH: On the theme of water, the first intuition would be to listen again to piano pieces by French impressionist composers: Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy.
The other musical source, which was not available to the Impressionists a hundred years ago, is to exploit electroacoustic recordings of concrete sounds produced by water in scenes of nature and life. These sounds could directly illustrate the photographs taken by Bernard Sustrac in the wilderness. They virtually re-create convincing immersive acoustic ambiences for the listener, experimenting with the intrinsic psychic virtues of the soothing, invigorating, even impressive sounds of water flow.
But rather than proposing a realistic virtual sound experience, the aim here is to take the listener into a dream of imaginary scenes, where selected, worked and orchestrated sound elements respond to each other. Thus the composition "Water" unfolds in five tableaux, expressing changes of sensation resulting from the variety of natures and dynamics of water, one of the four elements along with air, earth and fire.
credits
released September 23, 2021
Thanks to: BBC Sound Effects: sound samples
François Cuau: sound sculptures
Bernard Sustrac: cover photo and the "au fil de l'eau" suite which inspired the music
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