fabrice lengronne - musics - fragments pour un labyrinthe de cendres

fragments pour un labyrinthe de cendres (2019-2022)
narrators, spoken choir, algorithmic electroacoustic music, ensemble (violin, cello, flute, oboe, contrabassoon, amplified quartertone guitar, percussions), objects (rocks, papers, scissors), virtual ensemble (quartertone carillon, seventh tone piano, equal pentatonic and equal heptatonic kalimbas, gamelan in proper tuning) and octophonic spatialization. 40’

This work is a first version of un labyrinthe de cendres (a maze of ashes), work in progress. The full text of the work, Cantate aux fruits de cendres, can be found here.

Below can be found the current fragments. At the end of the page, the credits…

The present recordings are study versions, stereo, which loose the reality of sound spatialization of this work.

• 1. introduction
algorithmic spoken choir, cello and live electronics, percussion, virtual quartertone carillon

• 2. entrée (beginning)
voice 2, algorithmic electroacoustic music, oboe and live electronics, contrabassoon

• 3. R2 - I
algorithmic spoken choir, virtual seventh tone piano, percussion, flute, oboe, contrabassoon, violin, cello

study version, stereo, without percussion:

• 4. R1 - I
spoken choir, flute, oboe, contrabassoon, violin, cello, amplified quartertone guitar, percussions

• 5. transition
virtual equal heptatonic kalimbas, flute, oboe, contrabassoon, tamboril with contact microphone

study version, stereo, without percussion:

• 6. I.1
voice 1, virtual seventh tone piano, electroacoustic music, paper sheets, virtual gamelan

study version, stereo, without paper sheets:

• 7. I.2
voice 1, amplified quartertone guitar, percussions, algorithmic electroacoustic music and virtual quartertone carillon

• 8. I.3
voice 1, algorithmic electroacoustic music, virtual equal pentatonic kalimbas, violin and amplified quartertone guitar (8.1 transition)

study version, stereo, without the transition:

• 9. I.4
voice 1, virtual gamelan, flute, oboe, contrabassoon, violin, cello, vibraphone, paper sheet

study version, stereo, without vibraphone and paper:

• 10. R1 - II
spoken choir, flute, oboe, contrabassoon, violin, cello, amplified quartertone guitar, vibraphone

• 11. R2 - II
spoken choir, virtual gamelan, virtual seventh tone piano, virtual quartertone carillon and percussion

study version, stereo, without percussion:

• 12. I.5
voice 1, electroacoustic music, amplified quartertone guitar, percussions, violin and live electronics, and cello

• 13. I.6
voice 1, electroacoustic music, virtual kalimbas (both equal pentatonic and equal heptatonic), violin and cello

study version, stereo, without percussion:

• 14. I.7
voice 1, virtual seventh tone piano, contrabassoon, 6 musicians with objects (rocks, papers and scissors)

study version, stereo, without the objects:

• 15. envol
violin, 6 musicians with maracas, percussions, contrabassoon, virtual seventh tone piano, virtual gamelan, virtual kalimbas (both equal pentatonic and equal heptatonic), virtual quartertone carillon, electroacoustic music

study version, stereo, without the maracas and the percussions:

• credits
voice 1: Damián Rostropovich; voice 2: Gabriela Cohen
spoken choir, castilian: Gabriela Cohen, Nicolás Guazzone, Damián Rostropovich.
spoken choir, french: Gabriela Cohen, Olivier Maccario, Nathalie Vergeron, Fabrice Lengronne.
recording of the voices: Gastón Pepe, Fabrice Lengronne.
violin (recorded in sur un palimpseste de la liberté): Diego Swallow.
virtual instruments (including contrabassoon), spatialization, programing: Fabrice Lengronne.

Musicians during fragmentary premiere (july 11th 2022):
percussions : Mauricio Ramos
paper sheets, objects (rocks, papers, scissors) and maracas: Diego Alfonso, Emiliano Aquino, Rodrigo Domínguez, Annel Gramajo, Mauricio Ramos, Camilo Rehermann.

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