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L'​œ​il écoute (1970)

from Complete Works 01 by Bernard Parmegiani

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L’ŒIL ÉCOUTE
1970

Right on the outset, struck by the musical sonorities inside a train, the journey this piece is inviting you on is woven with different material and awakens our own imagination to comprehend the sounds, the power to guide those sounds into our inner labyrinths rather than follow them to Piura. This form of auditory contemplation tries to gives us time to wander away from our usual, all too familiar territories. Maybe, from looking too hard, man has forgotten to listen. And the eye, having become the “solitary wanderer” can only hear what disturbs it. [Bernard Parmegiani]

Movements: Train de passage + Passage d’insectes + Accords passagers + Transition + Harmonique + Signes (1) + Souffles + Signes (2) + Expansion + Alternatif

• Premiered during Festival Gulbelkian in Lisbon, May 9th 1970
• Initial version along with video by the composer after pictures by W. Borowczyk

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from Complete Works 01, released February 13, 2024
© Bernard Parmegiani
℗ Maison ONA

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Bernard Parmegiani Paris, France

1927 – 2013

Bernard Parmegiani is a pioneer and leading light of electroacoustic music. He leaves behind him a vast and fascinating œuvre, a priceless heritage for today's generation.

His life was structured around a few mainstays: working in a studio filled with machines, lighting a pipe filled with Amsterdamer, in the company of his wife (“first ear”), and not least, a few affectionate cats.
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