Browse by Artist: DUFOUR, DENIS

Artist:	DUFOUR, DENIS
Title:	Dix Portraits
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD/BK
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	INA M197

Beautifully produced 5" hardcover book with 48 pages of notes & photos about Dufour's work (in French & English), with CD. The disc features 2 major Dufour pieces: "Douze Melodies Acousmatiques" (1988) and "Dix Portraits" (1984). "It is to answer Michel Chion's 'Dix Études de Musique Concréte' that Denis Dufour has composed the 'Twelve Acousmatic Melodies'. A such a title is needed to emphasize the passage from the art of making (which means the working on concrete matter) to the act of hearing (for the acousmatic listening involves the perception of acoustic and mental pictures deprived of their sources). The concept of melody is here extended to the size of the perceptive field allowed by the acousmatic vocabulary. Procession of images, collage of resonant objects, ghostly breath, all these by turns put on stage, piece into space, handled by the 'acousmatic sorcerer' whose quick interventions barely leave the ear enough time to adjust its perception. Through their kaleidoscopic series, the 'Twelve Acousmatic Melodies' supply also the elements of a portrait, image after image, the one of Dufour's resonant world which is built up with its colors, its quarters of shadow, its moods, and we always perceive the sensitive fiber which binds one to another in an unique constellation." -- Michele Tosi.

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