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If it is difficult, if not impossible, to define francophone literature as a precise litterary field, we must nonetheless recognize the existence of a francophone literary system, which is determined by instances both of production on the part of the peripheral areas and of reception on that of the centre. According to the position they occupy in the margins, authors choose different rhetorical strategies which, in turn, determine the way they are received by Paris (assimilated or considered as exotic). The rhetoric of identity seems, in this case, to be an effective strategy as well as a condition of recognition by the centre, whose demand for exotic productions on the part of certain peripheral areas seems quite great.
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Most of the works from Serge Provost's most recent creative period, since his return from Ircam (France) in 1995-96, where he was introduced to computer-aided composition (cac) and the French approach to live electronics, are mixed pieces for instruments, pre-recorded sounds and real-time processing. Tracing a continuum from sound phenomenon to the conception of the material and its unfolding in space via electronic apparatus, Provost's works reflect a singular and committed aesthetic along three poetic axes: works of a personal nature bearing witness to autobiographical elements, those that engage in a dialogue with history, time and space, and works with an overtly political and social scope. This article will show how the spectral thinking that permeates the composer's work takes shape in the mixed works composed between 2001 and 2013, with attention to both technical and aesthetic dimensions.
Keywords: Serge Provost, musique mixte, musique spectrale, traitement en temps réel, composition assistée par ordinateur ()