“The dreamer of the world keeps falling into his own abyss to reach his original point. Black light… Seething latent energies, incommensurable, with no conscious strategy. Chemistry with no resolution. Layers crossed by the most essential elements. An echo within an echo multiplies space by itself. Everything is ready to ‘start’. The beginning of this movement represents the most obscure part of cosmic evolution. It inspired my musical reverie well before the astrophysicists’ Big Bang did. The absence of tone that largely characterises the sound used in this piece results from the e… read more
“The dreamer of the world keeps falling into his own abyss to reach his original point. Black light… Seething latent energies, incommensurable, with … read more
“The dreamer of the world keeps falling into his own abyss to reach his original point. Black light… Seething latent energies, incommensurable, with no conscious strategy. Chemistry with… read more
Bernard Parmegiani (1927 - 2013) was a French composer of musique concrete who trained (1959) under Pierre Schaeffer. Raised amidst two pianos, Bernard Parmegiani grew up under the Sign of Sound, listening to the everyday scales practised by his mother, a teacher, and to the virtuoso repertoire of his step-father. He was taken on as a sound man first on the radio and later on TV, which is where he conducted his first experiments with "bit twiddling" on tape. During this time he was also studying mime with Marcel Decroux and later at Jacques Lecoq's theatre school, whi… read more
Bernard Parmegiani (1927 - 2013) was a French composer of musique concrete who trained (1959) under Pierre Schaeffer. Raised amidst two pianos, Bernard Parmegiani grew up under the Sign of … read more
Bernard Parmegiani (1927 - 2013) was a French composer of musique concrete who trained (1959) under Pierre Schaeffer. Raised amidst two pianos, Bernard Parmegiani grew up under the Sign of Sound, listening to the everyday scales practi… read more