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Computermusik Anerkennung - Honorary Mention 1995

Les corps eblouis

Christian Calon
It is when in a moment of sharpened consciousness Matter, through the proliferation of its forms, strikes us with the measure of the ephemeral. A painful and, at the same time, magnificent experience. One being dissolved in the Number. Magnificence of the abundance and of each of its fragile manifestations. Sparkling of Presence. Infinitely admirable moment of the kissing of parallels. And Time. What could be the sense of this action, this abundance of sound, other than an answer to the amazement at the luxurious prodigality and the sumptuousness of Matter. And this little sentence, these few words, that carried me along or guided me: "Then as a drapery - spring came - on our dazzled bodies. L. F." The technical and compositional challenge here is the work on metamorphosis. Using a single type of material (electric guitar) I had to find the tools and develop the processes to make it evolve in a form which, through the metamorphoses of sound, would generate a spiral effect. Also, "Les Corps Eblouis" ("Dazzled Bodies") is intended for critical acoustic space imaging. Indeed, an important aspect of this work ist the relational continuity between the sound material transformational evolution and the spatial impression it generates.
Christian Calon (CDN) is working at the realization of volumes or virtual sound spaces to be entered by the audience. Founding member of the CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community); appointed to the artistic direction of the studios of the Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Marseille, in 1991. His last realization: the sound environment of the new Paris Museum of Natural History.