Label: Sub Rosa

LP版はゲートフォールド・ジャケット、2025年重要作!!未発表の初出音源!!電子音楽の歴史の中で間違いなく最高峰の作曲家の一人であるフランスのBernard Parmegiani。12枚組CDのアーカイヴボックスも作られており、全ての音源が出尽くした感がありましたが、なんと1992年に作曲していたという未発表曲集が初出版。同国の映画脚本家であるEmmanuel Raquin-Lorenziが、1976年にトランシルヴァニアで目撃した"蛇女"を題材とした作品[Lac Noir]よりインスピレーションを得た作品であり、奇怪な音素材を加工し積み上げ白昼夢的コンクレートを創出。不気味な音響群の集積がひたすらに怪しくカッコイイ超傑作。









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Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992.

Lac Noir - La Serpente is part of Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's Lac Noir, a composite work inspired by a serpentine female creature or 'snake woman' that he saw in Transylvania in 1976, with a total of 33 pieces using various media, 24 by himself and 9 by other artists. All the materials used in Lac Noir were gathered on the land of the snake-woman between 1990 and 1992. The first coordinated broadcast ran from June to October 2019, like a theatrical display of media.

At the end of May 1992, in Provence, in his Summer studio not far from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Bernard Parmegiani played me the first musical moments he had worked on from the sounds he and Christian Zanési had collected in Negreni in October 1990. A few days after this listening session, on 4th June, I wrote him a letter. I didn't mean to take control of what was to become the ninth movement of his composition, but to share with him some of the resonances I had heard in what he had composed, which mingled with my dreams and memories of the Transylvanian snake-woman, and outlined possible concordances with the other pieces underway for Lac Noir.

In the midst of the garish chaos of the fair and its spectacular stunts, there could spread out - still, silent eye of the cyclone - the long waters of a lake. Calm waters. Patches cool but sensitive as skin. Between the waters there flows and ripples, there shows up and dives again a snake-woman born of the still waters. A sweet, good serpent whose song - strange and melodious, sensual, yet already tinged, as if bitten by the black depths, with bitterness; that of prescience, shading it with melancholy - is her very undulation, the rings of which appear, together or in turn, the way translucent veins overlap, slither over one another in a moving braid of metamorphoses.
(extracts from notes by E. Raquin-Lorenzi)