CD Metharcana
Since 2002, the Forum de la Création Musicale has been bringing together composers of written instrumental music and electroacoustic music in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. On the occasion of the association's twentieth anniversary, a series of albums has been put together to help you discover the creative wealth of its members.
This boxed set presents a sample of composers from the contemporary Belgian electroacoustic scene. Through their relentless pursuit of sound facts using concrete writing techniques, as well as forays into instrumental or mixed music, dance, theatre and image, these artists have contributed to the development of contemporary music in all its aspects, transcending artistic boundaries and drawing on multiple sources of inspiration to create a captivating and eclectic sound experience.
The title 'Metharcana' refers to the eponymous piece that opens this opus as a tribute to the late composer and friend Stephan Dunkelman.
Discover an exceptional work celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Forum de la Création Musicale, an organisation dedicated to musical innovation and sound exploration. This double CD is much more than a simple compilation, it's an invitation to an incomparable musical journey, where the boundaries between genres are erased to make way for a unique aural experience.
With the support of the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles and Sabam for Culture.
A term rarely used now, the lament is a genre used in vocal polyphony in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.It celebrates the death of a musician.
However, along with the lament aspect, this piece proposes, above all, a sonic story. This "cinema for the ear" expresses a particularly painful trajectory towards the unique certainty of the human being; the process of the destruction of the body until its liberation. All that remains afterwards is the wind.
The sound timbres pertaining to the human voice refer to the genre of early music.The sounds generally unfold in a disorderly effervescence of micro-variations as an expression of the fragility of life.
A long crescendo, engendered by a dramatic silence, leads to a first climax. A second crescendo, which is a variation of the first, leads to the overall climax of the piece and foreshadows, during its development, the final lament. Afterwards, the music expresses the painful breathing, death and lamentation in sequences that become longer and longer and more and more serene. Coming, as a coda, are sentiments of liberation and oblivion.
The piece ends in a long silence, as a counterpart to the silence in the beginning.
It tells the experience of the composer in front of a very painful death.
This work was composed with the help of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Directorate of Culture, Department of Music.