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MUSIC
Nicolas Bernier +
Delphine Measroch
COMMISSION
Champ libre
PRODUCTION
2006
LENGTH
12’
PRESENTATION
Soundwalk
PREMIERE
October 20, 2007Montréal, Canada |
DESCRIPTION
In a radiophonic style, Big Wheel is a half-fiction half-documentary soundwalk based on anecdotes and hearsay. The sources largely come from concrete sounds, soundscapes and talking voices in relation with the past and present history of the Great Library neighborhood. This peculiar guided walk combines the principal musical activities of the Milliseconde topographie duet : acousmatic music, instrumental music and soundscapes. In a playful way, Big Wheel builds links between people from yesterday and people from today and lets them intersect in the the same urban manege. Big Wheel appears to the listener as an hybrid mosaic of rumours and anecdotes seized in flight, as if coming out disorderedly |