Sous le regard d'un soleil noir Metadata

Title

• Main Title Sous le regard d'un soleil noir
• Series Title MISAME

Creator

• Composer: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Performer: Louet, Pierre
  Contributor Type: Personal
  Contributor Info: Narrator
• Performer: Forget, Marthe
  Contributor Type: Personal
  Contributor Info: Narrator
• Performer: Bergeron, Arthur
  Contributor Type: Personal
  Contributor Info: Narrator

Publisher

• Name: Mnémothèque Internationale des Sciences et Arts en Musique Électroacoustique
  Place of Publication: Bourges, France

Date

• Creation: 1979/1981

Language

• French
• English

Description

• Content Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sections of the piece are as follows: 1. Pareil a un voyageur perdu (Like a Traveler Who's Been Lost); 2. Engloutissement (Engulfment); 3. Arrête! Arrête! Elle me tue (Stop it. Stop it. She's Killing Me); 4. Implosion; 5. Le moi divisé (The Divided Self); 6. Citadelle intérieure (Inner Citadel); 7. Pétrification (Petrification); 8. Le message quand vient le soir (The Message at the Coming of Night). The piece focuses on the experience of schizophrenia, something Dhomont calles a "particular form of human tragedy... the dissolution of the being and the exploding of personality, where a universe of implacable confinement is constructed." The "clinical commentaries" of the narrators, as the comments of a therapist/coryphaeus (though not devoid of tenderness), serve as landmarks throughout the work, though they only serve to introduce the distance, using few caesuras that will spare pathos from pathetic, and in regard to ourselves, voyeurism. Dhomont describes the piece as being "the history of a shipwreck: the hallucinated derivation across an obsessional landscape where the note B-natural is the obsessed character, the tonic axis that binds together the eight sections." The veritable ostinato, an "Invention on one note," recalls the idea of Wozzeck by Alban Berg. The original version of "Sous Ie regard d'un soleil noir" was produced in 1979-80 in the studios of the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montreal and during November/December 1981 in the studio of the INA-GRM (Paris, France) for the sixth section Citadelle interieure (Inner Citadel), which was added to the initial version. The cycle is dedicated to Dhomont's sons and their mother. It was premiered February 3, 1981 at the the Université de Montreal and was presented at the 11th Bourges International Festival of Experimental Music (France) on June 14, 1981. Section 6, Citadelle intérieure, was a commission from the INA-GRM (Paris, France).
• Physical Description: 1 sound recording (51 min., 33 sec.)

Subject

• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Electronic music.
• Keyword: Electroacoustic music
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Sound recordings
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Ambient sounds
• Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: electronics
• Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: speaker
• Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: male voice
• Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: female voice
• Keyword: narrators
• Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: piano
• Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: processed sound

Primary Source

• Item is a Primary Source

Collection

• Name: Mnemothèque Internationale des Arts Electroacoustiques
  Code: MISAME

Institution

• Name: UNT Music Library
  Code: UNTML

Rights

• Rights Access: unt

Resource Type

• Sound

Format

• Audio

Identifier

• Accession or Local Control No: 101274
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1062259

Note

• Display Note: "Sous regard d'un soleil noir" was awarded the 1st Prize in the Electroacoustic Program Music category at the 9th International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges (France, 1981).
• Display Note: Program Notes from Dhomont: [1| LIKE A TRAVELER WHO'S BEEN LOST 7:57 Foreign Reality. Threats. The Incarcerated Self. A Solitude Inhabited by Shadows. First variations on the note B natural. Appearance of'pivotal elements.' Breakdowns. [2] ENGULFMENT 7:48 First Delirium. Exterior Intrusion. Denial. Mother/sea : liquid burial, filled crevices, abysses. A play on the rhythms (broad pulses) of ebb and flow (respiration''). [3] STOP IT. STOP IT. SHE'S KILLING 7:21 Anguish at the disappearance : the inexistence. Hallucinations. Destruction of self. A play on rhythms (tight pulses). Intermodulation of sequences. Energetic contrasts. Polyphonic crescendo. [4] IMPLOSION 4:13 Reality Persecutes. Invasion and Oppression. Withdrawal. New variations on B natural, a 'fixed'parameter. Dynamic modulation of numerous materials by the piano (announced at the beginning of the previous section and confirmed in the next). [5] THE DIVIDED SELF 6:23 Division, fragmentation, fracture, fissure, crack. Double sense. The struggle of B natural in narrow 'clusters/Profusion of materials, poly- phonic. Piano-swirling. [6] INNER CITADEL 7:39 Denied reality. Distortion of Elsewhere. Icy terror. The Subterranean Labyrinth 'Here' and 'there.' Amplification of the pivotal elements. Anecdotal sounds. False loops: unfaithful repetitions. Aggressive accentuation of the upper spectral regions. [7] PETRIFICATION 5:17 Catatonic : "There is now only a vacuum where there was a person" (Laing) •Invention' on the preceding sections. A chronological recapitulation of the strong moments, but degraded, anamorphosized, scratched. Traces of Wozzeck, Superposition of durations in decreasing progressions. [8] THE MESSAGE AT THE COMING OF NIGHT 4:20 "No one penetrates there, not even with the message of a death. But you, you are seated at your window and, in your dream, you call out the message at the coming of night." (Kafka). Return of sequences, figures and objects from sections 1 and 2 in different relationships: modified listening perspectives.