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are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it;
and of that which is coming into existence, part is already extinguished.
Motions and changes are continually renewing the infinite duration
of ages. In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding,
what is there of the things that hurry by on which a man would set
a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with
one of the sparrows that fly by, when it has already passed out
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (II.17, VI.15) |
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brief candle was composed during
an artist's residency at Djerassi (California), then at SCRIME (Bordeaux),
then at home (Paris), and finally at La Kitchen (Paris).
Most of the sounds were created through spectral and temporal transformations
in SuperVP, controlled by programs I wrote in OpenMusic. Other sounds
were generated by programs I wrote in Max/MSP. The 6-channel spatialization
is based on variable phase relations of independent point sources.
Many thanks to Christian Eloy, Mikhail Malt, Régis Renouard-Larivière,
Thierry Codys, and all the team at Djerassi.
Comissioned by the French Ministry of Culture and by SCRIME.
brief candle was selected in the contest CIMESP 2005 and the
Concours Internationaux de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques
de Bourges 2006. |
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