Voir dans le vent… Ensemble SuperMusique (ESM), Symon Henry

- Composer(s): Symon Henry
- Performer(s): Ensemble SuperMusique (ESM)
- Graphic design: Frédérique Laliberté
- Canada Council for the Arts • SODEC
Voir dans le vent… highlights the improvisatory invention and detailed listening of Ensemble SuperMusique… — The WholeNote, Canada
The music unfolds gently and cautious, leading up to delicate and fragile constructions… — Vital, Netherlands
This album was recorded live in concert as part of the exhibition of composer Symon Henry’s graphic score “Voir dans le vent qui hurle les étoiles rire, et rire” at Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montréal. This outstanding 168-page score, hand-drawn by the composer himself, was performed by ten improvisers from the Ensemble SuperMusique under the direction of Danielle Palardy Roger.
Each musician had to follow the score unfolding on his/her own iPad, while it was simultaneously projected on a screen for the audience to be seen. Divided into five movements followed by an Epilogue, this piece allows us, amongst other things, to visit a few “nuages d’étoiles” and “entrelacs”, and a series of “formidables Nues”. Referring to himself as a “sound draughtsman”, musicians from ESM delicately play both the outlines of Symon Henry’s drawings — whether they are thick or thin, pale or dark, straight or curved, — as well as all points making up the whole image… It is with great pleasure that the Ensemble SuperMusique has performed his graphic work.
- Ambiances Magnétiques
- AM 251 / 2020
- UPC/EAN 771028125128
- Total duration: 50:38
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
- 1chamber ensemble
- 1Grandes horizontales et nuages d’étoiles (prémisses) (2016, 18), 12:29chamber ensemble
- 2Rencontres (sur fond de grandes horizontales) (2016, 18), 9:36chamber ensemble
- 3Entrelacs et épuration (2016, 18), 6:31chamber ensemble
- 4Accords et impulsions (2016, 18), 7:17chamber ensemble
- 5Les nues (autoportraits en liesse) (2016, 18), 10:23chamber ensemble
- 6Résonances (grandes horizontales II) (2016, 18), 4:22chamber ensemble
- Ambiances Magnétiques
- AM 251_NUM / 2020
- UPC/EAN 771028125180
- Total duration: 50:38
Stereo
- 96 kHz, 24 bits
• MP3 • OGG • FLAC
- 1chamber ensemble
- 1Grandes horizontales et nuages d’étoiles (prémisses) (2016, 18), 12:29chamber ensemble
- 2Rencontres (sur fond de grandes horizontales) (2016, 18), 9:36chamber ensemble
- 3Entrelacs et épuration (2016, 18), 6:31chamber ensemble
- 4Accords et impulsions (2016, 18), 7:17chamber ensemble
- 5Les nues (autoportraits en liesse) (2016, 18), 10:23chamber ensemble
- 6Résonances (grandes horizontales II) (2016, 18), 4:22chamber ensemble

Voir dans le vent…
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