About
In March of 2019, I was in the final year of my studies, completing a six-month internship and was discovering Montreal for the very first time. Of course, I wanted to take full advantage of my time there to make music, meet artists and start up new projects. It was the theremin’s centennary year; something had to be organized!
Aleks Schürmer, also fascinated by this unique musical instrument, spontaneously wrote to me proposing a collaboration. The idea was to present the theremin in a contemporary context, in all its expressive facets. All registers would be explored, from the lowest lows to the highest highs.
The works featured on this album contain elements of 18th and 19th century forms and performance practices, popular music tropes and post-20th century tonalism, and while they are often harmonically challenging, the music can still feel comfortable and familiar to the uninitiated listener. Many of the album’s works reflect on the optimism of the early 20th century’s imagined utopic future and where we’ve ended up a hundred years later. From the rise of nationalism, fascism, isolationism, anti-socialism and even a global pandemic, the shared traits of both the early 20th and 21st century are explored in the album’s main work, “À ses derniers pas, entrant dans la boue (Quelques petites pensées sur nos jours)”.
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