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Cantus for Gilles Tremblay

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:50:27 +0000

Cantus for Gilles Tremblay, Cantus as canticle, Cantus firmus. Tremblay’s work reminds me a break-up, a formal shift, sparkling harmonies colored by the omnipresent shadow of faith. It is this same faith – in its spiritual essence rather than the concreteness of its Christianity – which has always attracted and fascinated me, be it in the works of Penderecki and Pärt, my mentors, or within of my own creation.

Religion is as much meditation as violence, and I can not conceive of music without violence. Violence in a silence, violence in a pianissimo. A contrast that crosses the three movements of the work through a writing which combines ancient and modern elements. From the neo-Gregorian monody of the first movement and its treatment in canon to the fugue that structures the race of the third is established a set of references interspersed with gestures bursting at the piano, woven into the web of strings. At the center of Cantus, a slow movement in sustained chords and silences, paradoxically the most intense of the three: without beginning or end, frozen in a timeless elegy.

The work, commissioned by the Contemporary Music Workshop of the University of Montreal under the direction of Lorraine Vaillancourt, was created April 6, 2010.

What they think about us

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:45:35 +0000

I am currently working on the score for the first documentary by Lost Pelican Pictures, a young production company founded in Montreal by Lorenzo Sterzi and Melanie Pelican. What they think of us develops a contemporary reflection on the relations between France and Quebec through the journey of a young French exchange student in Quebec, complete with interviews with politicians and personalities from both sides of the Atlantic.

You can watch the trailer for the film here :

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24 Preludes after Chopin

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:30:39 +0000

The 24 Preludes after Chopin are a set of original compositions based on textures and gestures from the orignal piano cycle of Chopin. The exercise is one of reappropriation, where the objective is a symbiosis, a subtle shift from the first work. Sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, the offset, like a remix, sheds new light on the music, which oscillates between the nineteenth and the twenty-first century.

Warszawa 1944

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:01:17 +0000

Warszawa 1994 is the first part of a orchestral series entitled Pictures At A Revolution. In five movements, the work is a musical testament to events / cities that have marked the evolution of the struggle against the Communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe.

The first part is inspired by the insurgency against the german occupation by the Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa). The Soviet army waited until the resisters were crushed to “liberate” the city. Having a free hand to impose its own government, it will operate a rewriting of history, denying the role of the AK in favor of a communist resistance, in fact almost nonexistent.

Fade To Grey

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:11:14 +0000

Combining influences from cold-wave and minimal electronic music, Fade To Grey is a Montreal based rock project. The duo is a real-life couple that shares writing and signing tasks : Georges Dimitrov, composer and musician, and Zoé Starchild, journalist and critic. Until a show nearby or an official release, check out our regularly updated demos.

Georges Dimitrov
Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Programming

Zoé Starchild
Vocals, Keyboards

Fade To Grey have their own official website :
www.fadetogreymusic.com.

Visit us also on Facebook :
www.facebook.com/pages/Fade-To-Grey/25381664063.