专辑简介

Georges Aperghis专辑介绍：Machinations is a ‘musical spectacle’ with four female performers, a man, a computer and video projectors. The female performers consist of a singer (Donatienne Michel-Dansac), a violinist (Geneviève Strosser), a flautist (Sylvie Sacoun) and an actress (Sylvie Levesque), though they all assume a different and unfamiliar role here: standing behind illuminated tables, they exclaim phonemes, gesticulate and project elemental objects representing the former. The male performer (Olivier Pasquet) intervenes with the computer, sometimes in support of and sometimes in competition with the others, creating an audiovisual dialogue with the actions of the four women. The work’s texts were written by the composer and his erstwhile collaborator, the philosophy professor and author, François Regnault. That said, they are not actually texts, but rather ‘pre-texts’ which, though meaningless, still have communicational power: they represent in abbreviated form the story of the birth of language, as a code of communication, out of Protean sounds and primeval noises. In the same way, the juxtaposition of simple objects and computer programmes represents the story of the birth of science and ‘machines’. ℗ © 2002 Universal Classics France. Released in a jewel case enclosed in a slip case. Composed and recorded in 2000. Co-produced by Ircam-Centre Pompidou and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. Booklet in French & English. Contains an interview of Georges Aperghis and François Regnault by Peter Szendy. Total time: 51'37". Co-producer – Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln* Composed By – Georges Aperghis Computer – Olivier Pasquet Cover, Design – Richard Paoli Libretto By [Texts] – François Regnault, Georges Aperghis Liner Notes – Georges Aperghis Liner Notes [English Translation] – John Tyler Tuttle Photography By – Nabil Boutros Technician [Musical Assistant] – Olivier Pasquet, Tom Mays Voice – Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Geneviève Strosser, Sylvie Levesque, Sylvie Sacoun