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Speculative discourse and the productive utopias that result from it are at the source of contemporary avant-garde musical production. The crises of modernism in the 20th century were sparked by the advent of productive utopias that were able to stimulate the imagination and to instill the energy to exceed limits. In this article we will see how reduced listening, the search for musical archetypes and for a certain musical communication as well as the development of a theoretical reflection with a highly speculative character participate in the utopian project of the electroacoustic adventure and contribute to the stimulation of its inventive character.
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Much of Pierre Mercure's catalogue remains a mystery since many manuscripts are untraceable and tapes lost. Focusing on dance productions that included his works, this article seeks to retrace their history based on photographs, performance programs and newspaper articles. From this corpus we see how Mercure brought new thinking to composition through the years. He took his writing in new directions, recasting the conventional concert format by using the tools and techniques of electroacoustic music. His works incorporated dancers and technical equipment along with special lighting and collaborators from the fine arts. In company with the Refus global artists, Pierre Mercure was clearly a vital factor in the dissemination and reception of contemporary music in Québec.
Keywords: Pierre Mercure, musique, danse, spectacle, histoire, Pierre Mercure, music, dance, show, history
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Music is an important part of young people's lives. In this article, we attempt to answer two questions on the links between music et suicide. First, we examine if certain types of music favor suicidal process (ideation and acting out); and, secondly, we examine if music can constitute a tool to reduce the risk of suicide. Several factors possibly involved in links between musical preferences and the suicidal process are developed: the Velten effect and the musical mood induction procedure, the identification and the learning by imitation, the media influence as well as the individual characteristics. A multifactor approach is necessary to understand the complex and birectional links that unite musical preferences and suicide risk.
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This article examines the so-called “crisis” of the music industry. It presents first a descriptive analysis of the public discourse in Quebec on that topic, including a presentation of associated facts and figures (e.g., symptoms, people in charge, action). Then, to initiate what Foucault termed “événementialisation,” i.e., the analysis of discourse and practices as dimensions of events, the author examines the conditions of possibility and intelligibility of this discourse, whether it be about the “crisis” or a part of it. The author describes the production of CDs as the predominant form of musical communication, and the effectiveness of the “crisis” as a structuring principle within the endogenous industrialization of music.
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In this article, the composer and conductor Alfredo Rugeles shows that the relationship between so-called learned contemporary music and popular folk music is a highly concrete reality in Venezuela. After having recalled the major currents in the history of composition in his country, the author cites many examples of collaborations between composers of arts music and popular music performers. He makes a list of major composers in Venezuela, classifying them by the generation, or the school or stylistic movement to which they belong. Rugeles also depicts the current situation by describing the different educational institutions and professors through which young composers receive their education, as well as the different festivals in which their works are presented to the public.
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This article reports on an experiment in a high school class in France that evaluated the relevance and effectiveness of the teacher's subjective reading when teaching literary text learning practices. To do this, the trainee developed a study protocol for her class of Boris Vian's Froth On The Daydream by respecting the artistic, literary, visual, and especially musical plurality of the work. This approach was largely based on the teacher's training in the Master 2 program, which aims to introduce students to the concepts of reader-subject, reading subjectively, and reader text. The pedagogical experimentation focused particularly on the musical listening of jazz pieces in close connection with the novel and proved particularly productive in terms of student motivation and learning in reading and writing.
Keywords: oeuvre multimodale, sujet lecteur, écoute musicale, multimodal literary work, reader-subject, musical listening