In:
Circuit, Consortium Erudit, Vol. 18, No. 1 ( 2008-04-29), p. 59-71
Abstract:
In order to study the compositional process of contemporary composer Philippe Leroux, the authors compiled an array of information that drew largely on elements from the composer’s workshop during the composition of Voi(rex) (2002-2003) and Apocalypsis (2004-2006). An interview in the form of a compositional situation simulation brought to light the main documents that Leroux used for his work (sketches, early versions, software, etc.); consulting them during the interview process enabled the reclaiming of precise details of the composer’s past activities. Based on this, it was possible to define the composer’s workshop in the context of the compositional dynamic that set it in motion. This article brings together the elements that made up Leroux’s workshop (his tools, procedures, works, scores for earlier works, etc.) as he was writing two specific works, and it reveals how some of these elements may be used (e.g., operations for the substitution of elements and the construction of operation chains). The workshop is thus defined both as the milieu and the product of composition: the score represents the point of stability for its dynamic internal workings, and the resolution of the many tools and somewhat repetitive procedures that might be found at any moment in the work. These ideas are illustrated in greater detail by the reconstitution of a series of compositional operations realized over a period of three weeks, as the composer prepared to write Apocalypsis in March and April of 2005, and after he had set to work on both the beginning of the work and another short choral work ( Thermidor from the cycle Des autres ).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1488-9692
,
1183-1693
Language:
French
Publisher:
Consortium Erudit
Publication Date:
2008
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2123401-2
SSG:
9,2
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