La mécanique des ruptures

“Medieval stone-cutters would strike rock, making it ‘ring’ in order to judge its worth for construction.

“I’ve discovered that my work as a composer has much in common with this branch of civil engineering – exploring and evaluating the behaviour of material on the verge of splitting apart. The composer searches out well-defined forms, strong and clearly cut, alternating movements and interaction marked by tension and release.

“The material which I use is subjected to restraint, to enormous pressure, until it finally sunders, shatters, transforms. Brought to its breaking point.”
– Gilles Gobeil, Montréal, June 1994

1. Le Vertige inconnu

2. Voix blanche

3. Associations libres

4. La Ville machine

5. Rivage

6. Nous sommes heureux de…

7. La ou vont les nuages…

8. Traces