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La Roue Ferris (1971)

from Complete Works 02 by Bernard Parmegiani

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LA ROUE FERRIS
1971

◆ ‘La Roue Ferris’ tourne, confondue avec sa propre résonance dont elle entretient, avec acharnement, les variations. Elle ne fait qu’esquisser un mouvement régulièrement évolutif autour d’un axe constant. Chacun de ses tours entraîne des épaisseurs sonores dont les couches successives s’interpénètrent, jouent en des entrelacs très fluides. Les crépitements de l’origine se métamorphosent finalement en des fils sonores dont la légèreté évoque les nuages des très hautes altitudes, les cirrus, qu’habitent de leurs cris les martinets tournoyants lorsque l’air est chaud. Le merveilleux naît et meurt, nous laissant l’illusion de la durée.
[Bernard Parmegiani]

◇ ‘La Roue Ferris’ (The Ferris Wheel) becomes part of its own resonance, its variations relentlessly kept up as it spins. It simply traces a movement which evolves regularly around a stationary axis. Each spin generates sounds of various thicknesses, their successive, interpenetrating layers in playful fluidity. The crackling at the beginning transforms finally into threads of light sound that evoke cirrus clouds, the ones seen in very high altitude harbouring the cries of swifts circling the thermals. Wonderment comes into existence and dies, leaving us with the illusion of duration.
[Bernard Parmegiani]

• Premiered in Menton (France), during ‘Festival des chantier navals’ on August 26th 1971

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from Complete Works 02, released March 14, 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. ... more

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