Jacques Lejeune
Sonopsys N° 2/3 (Book + CD)
Realized at and commissioned by Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). Premiered April 25, 2004, salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de la Radio (Paris, France). Comes within 108-page book with original texts in French translated in English including interview/discussion between Alexandre Yterce, Florence Gonot & Jacques Lejeune; also including is a full list of works by the composer.
The Cahiers Sonopsys will question some composers of this Musique Concrète / Acousmatique which, since 1948, the year it was invented by Pierre Schaeffer, is "one of those pure forms which, by the highlighting of a singular language, open to all possible sound inscriptions, and this up to the art of embodied sound-noises, up to the creation of sounds, manifests through its inescapable works the tuning forks of intimate consciousness - capable of transcribing a whole world favourably disposed to maintain our senses in the very exultation of uniting life with our desires, our dreams and first of all with the creation of the self.
Exutoire pour un oiseau (1965) revised version for Sonopsys (2004). Les palpitations de la forêt (1985) commissioned by Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB). Premiered June 6, 1986 during the Festival des musiques expérimentales de Bourges (Bourges, France). Seconde leçon des ténèbres pour le mercredi - Saint (1998) realized at Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM). Premiered May 11, 1998, salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de la Radio (Paris, France). Théâtres de l'eau (2003-2004) realized at and commissioned by Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM). Premiered April 25, 2004, salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de la Radio (Paris, France). Comes within 108-page book with original texts in French translated in English including interview/discussion between Alexandre Yterce, Florence Gonot & Jacques Lejeune ; also including is a full list of works by the composer. Cahiers Musique concrète / Acousmatique published by Licences. Directed by Alexandre Yterce and founded by Florence Gonot. Standard edition of 280 numbered copies (221-500) from a total of 500 copies.
