Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Phonurgie: „making, working and creating sound“
Phonurgie brings the sound of this legacy to a close; on the other hand, the first part, Objets retrouves, draws all of its material and its structure from it. Paraphrased elements from Novars can, of course, be found – elements that themselves paraphrase Etude aux objets, making them commentaries on commentaries – while the opening and conclusion make reference to AvatArsSon. Nevertheless, n this fourth hommage, the allusions to the origins melt away before the original propositions; filliation is not renounced, but here the child, finally grown, reveals its identity. While the “sound color” may no longer be the same, morphological thought and writing still remain, in all of their many forms, true to the spirit of the “concerts de bruits” (Noise Concert).
Phonurgie was realized in 1998 in the Syter studio of Ina-GRM in Paris and in the composers studio., and it premiered on September 25th, 1998 as part of the Invention `98 festival in Berlin. The piece was commissioned by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Phonurgie won First prize at CibertArt 1999 in Spain. In 1998 Phonurgie was included on the “Invention 98” disc and in 1999 on the “III CIMESP 1999” disc.
Cycle du son was premiered on November 22nd 1998 as part of the 5th “L espace du son” Festival acousmatique international in Brüssels.

Video created with vokoscreen and Sonic Visualizer on an openSUSE 13.1 Linux system.