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A hybrid thing in four movements, made of cut-up pieces, pasted, assembled, sowed parts that are alike and contrasted, and that I have named, for obvious reasons, the Frankenstein Symphony: an unusual electroacoustic adventure. Armed with a scalpel and a splicing (operational) block, I sampled several morphological organs from the works of 22 composers and friends (many of whom were students of mine), and with their imprudent blessings (on a stormy night?), brought to life this little acousmatic monster which I hold particularly close to my heart. The elements were chosen amongst the works according to their typo-morphological affinities or contrasts, and with formal considerations in mind. Though I often allowed myself to play layering games, mixing works together (as with E.Madan, D. Leduc, A. Vande Gorne and myself), never did I use filtering, internal editing, transpositions or processing on the sounds. In short, I had a great time, and hope that the legitimate parents of this child will survive the delirium of this mad scientist, and will enjoy it as much as I did. In fact, there are, here and there, some meetings, dialogues and counterpoints among the excerpts that are so obvious that one can't help but wonder why some composers didn't work together... In the end, this is only a game, with no other goal than to bring to light how astonishingly rich acousmatic music can be. Yet, more than recycling, it's first and foremost an homage to the inventiveness of these composers. Francis Dhomont Montreal, February 1997
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8c... For the 50th Anniversary of SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, 6-10 August, 2023, the Pioneers asked their members to contribute videos of their earliest research and production work. 1960-1993
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