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La Voliere

from The Ear sees by Randall Smith

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The opening fanfare offers a blueprint for creation, an inaugural explosion which ushers in a universe of struggle, where the machines of our perception are pitted against their natural surround. Epitomized by the gestures of birds, their movements of flight are retraced according to the dictates of a machine universe, which aligns them into orders of understanding, geometries of the visible.
Volière is French for aviary. The large birds’ cage is the one we’ve built ourselves, and amongst its many exhibited specimens is the music of this piece, La volière. Using the human voice as a template or ground, the sounds of birds swarm around it, finally fragmenting until they become inhabited by the machines which describe them. In a series of crescendos the sound mimes the voices of birds, using their movement to inform its own, its risings and fallings an echo of the natural order. This parallel universe, constructed along the lines of the first, bears the traces of its original, yet remains distinctly manufactured, synthesized, shaped. La volière mimes a natural process of growth and evolution, begun with the resounding clap of creation; it proffers a song of machines learned in the habits of ornithology, its own issue grown against the sound of flight.

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from The Ear sees, released June 30, 2022

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Randall Smith Toronto, Ontario

Randall Smith developed an interest in Acousmatic music when he discovered the music of the Groupe de Resherches Musicales (GRM) from Paris France. After working with other artists in Film and Dance combined with his own musical experiments have permitted the development of compositional techniques that he uses to inject into purely musical works. ... more

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