Au cœur du litige is a radiophonic work consisting at its core of a series of solo clarinet improvisations. Subsequently stripped of their innocence and simplicity through digital manipulations these solos become a dense web within which there is a multiplicity of threads to explore. The project, inspired by the ice storm that ravaged large parts of Quebec and Ontario, makes use of an innovative live interactive electroacoustic set-up inspired by current works in the field of audio research. Technically speaking, the work aims to free the instrumentalist from the electroacoustic domain’s usual constraints, and to generate a sound world more akin to improvisation-based environment, in which the performer plays a decision making role.

CD-1

Au coeur du litige

1. Grésil

2. Black Triangle

3. Mon Coeur

4. L’Immigrant

5. Allégories

6. Epilogue

Blinks

7. Blink I

8. Air Froid

9. Blink II

10. Période Monochrome

11. Cryogenic Nightmare

12. En Attendant la Neige

CD 2

1. Brace

2. Skronk I

3. Ice

4. Snowbirds

5. Watt

6. Ghosting

7. Skronk II

8. The Woodcarver’s Wife

9. Rive Sud

10 Fleur de Peau