Improvisation - Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Soupirs

2005 for clarinet, voice and live electronics

02/04/2005

In this day and age, complicating things is a very simple matter. So simple that is much more difficult to do things simply. Soupirs is not very complicated affair. She breathes in, he breathes out. She breathes in, he breathes out: a song. Her heart beats. He wanes and disperses, his heart beats to her. He has butterflies in his stomach. It no longer works, everything topples. He cries out, but she is the one to cry out. It evolves, transforms. Paths cross. There is hope. He can sing alone, she can breathe out without him.

(photo) Seconde expérience for Soupirs, Kaïs Demers and Sonia Paço-Rocchia
(thanks to Éric Andrade for the photo)
(audio) Seconde expérience for Soupirs, recorded at the lab, 6th of April 2005
(Salle Serge-Garant, Université de Montréal)
(audio) Final version recording January 2006
(video) home made video of final version, January 2006

Recording, 16th of November 2016, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, by David Perreault

Improvisations sur les cinq sens

15/05/2004

printemps 2004
piano, soprano, violoncelle, percussions, bande, mise en scène, traitement en temps réel, cornemuse et auto télécommandée

Un piano discute avec un pianiste. Le piano veut savoir pourquoi il doit se plier aux désirs du pianiste. Le pianiste doit alors lui prouver, en parlant piano, qu’il a certains atouts majeurs: les cinqs sens. Cinq improvisations libres sur la vue, l’odorat, le goût, le toucher et l’ouïe.

Sometime we need something to give improvisation ideas. This piece have a part of exploration to try other inspiration sources.

Jean-Claude Bernier, piano; Marianne Lambert, soprano; Mathieu Voghel Robert, violoncelle; Stéphanie Cyr, percussions; Brent Shaus, cornemuse; Sylvie-Anne Ménard, auto télécommandée; Fátima Rocchia, costumes

Pour la seconde version (concert du CECO, printemps 2005), Jean-Dominique Felx à la cornemuse

Créée en mai 2004, lors d’un Concert de classe des élèves de Michel Smith, à la salle Serge-Garant de l’Université de Montréal. Jouée le 24 mars 2005, lors d’un Concert du Ceco (Cercle des compositeurs de l’Université de Montréal) à la salle Claude-Champagne de l’Université de Montréal.

photo, concert du Ceco, mars 2005

(audio) Aria aux sens (soprano solo) (mai 2004)
(audio) La vue (introduction) (mai 2004)
(audio) Le toucher (introduction) (mai 2004)
(audio) Le rêve (mai 2004)

Sans escalier

(Without Staircase)
winter and spring 2004
solo slinky with live electronics

01/04/2004

It's pitch dark, but one light shins on the metallic slinky. We can see its shape hanging from huge tube. I caress it. It dances for me. It does its metallic sounds. I am fascinated by slinkies, they move so well. I love the sound. At first you think it is a very simple sound, but more you listen to it, more you realise its complexity and all its different colours.

Many thanks to Francis Beaulieu, instrument maker, who one day went up my stairs with a huge tube.

This piece was premièred in Montréal, 1st of february 2004, and has been played a few times, since. Video is from a performance at Salle Claude-Champagne, in Montréal, 19th of March of the same year.

Other works are related to it, like this installation.

This is a research I did on the slinky (in French)

Prélude

25/02/2004

janvier et février 2004
récitant, voix, harmonica et percussions
Prélude à la Symphonie Portuaire, en collaboration avec Éric Champagne et Émile Primeau.

Hommage à l’Acadie

Jouée les 22 et 29 février 2004

(link) CMC