Did you say sound library? (2025)
Bilingual collective work on the subject of the “sound library” in acousmatic composition.
In Acousmatic, the sound library can be considered as a tool inherent to its mode of production i.e. fixed-media composition. Whether it's a hard disk or a rack of reels, in all cases it refers to a pool of sounds; a palette organising the raw materials that the composer will elaborate and then use to compose a work. Alongside the working space, the sound library is involved in every stage of the composition,
through a continuous back and forth process, whether it be on the scale of a single piece or else over an entire career.
For
this work, I have asked some of these composers to talk about
the “sound library” as a tool in their work, in a fairly free
way, taking the form of articles or interviews. Throughout
these various texts, the reflection around the sound library will thus focus on all the singularities it suggests: its relationship to the project and the compositional process, the making of musical material and its use in the work, and finally, sound classification. The aim has been to cross borders, generations and musicalities in order to represent a certain diversity in today's Acousmatic scene.
With the participation of:
Régis Renouard Larivière, Christine Groult, François Bayle, Robert Normandeau, Armando Balice, Annette Vande Gorne, Marco Marini, Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Jonty Harrison, Tomonari Higaki, John Young, Philippe Mion, Elizabeth Anderson, Hans Tutschku, Denis Dufour, Jean-Marc Duchenne, Daniel Teruggi, Elsa Justel, Christian Zanési, Stéphane Roy, Lucie Prod’homme, Åke Parmerud, Claude-Anne Parmegiani, Maxime Barthélemy and Maycec.
