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Les Structures Du Rêve, For Two Marimbas And Multipercussion., Bruno Louchourn
Les Structures Du Rêve, For Two Marimbas And Multipercussion., Bruno Louchourn
Bruno Louchouarn
Recent studies have likened dreams to virtual reality. They are much closer in nature to our conscious life than previously thought. In many ways the apprehension of dreams parallel that of music. In both case a stream of virtually real events is pieced together and accepted by the mind in a very intuitive fashion, with similar suspension of disbelief, and similar level of aesthetic responses from the beautiful to the disturbing. Their structure is clear from moment to moment but less precisely felt globally
Vox Populi, For Timpani And Electronics, Bruno Louchourn
Vox Populi, For Timpani And Electronics, Bruno Louchourn
Bruno Louchouarn
Vox populi is the voice of the people, the crowd. It expresses our basic feelings, emotions, or demand, often in a quasi-verbal fashion. These are utterances we share and understand spontaneously--something raw, intuitive but also capable of subtle changes. The tape represents these collective voices, the immediate rhetorical mode of address. The timpani matches the raw power of the voice and the sonic dimension of the tape. They cover a wide emotional range. The drums also have a ritualistic framing function bringing order to human utterances.