Songes

Songes (Dreams)

Etchings, Pierre CAMBON
Music and guitar, Benoît ALBERT

Graphic and musical variations

A collaboration between artist/engraver Pierre Cambon and musician/composer Benoit Albert

In an electro-acoustic interpretation of Pierre Cambon’s engravings, composer Benoit Albert creates 12 musical landscapes depicting a series of sleep cycles, with blurred boundaries, where reality and dream mingle in an imaginary world. This music, inspired by art, decisively turns toward research that touches on human intimacy. In that place of dreams, beyond the physical body, is the presence that tries to transcribe, to reveal itself on the surface of Cambon’s copper plate aquatints. Within the music and the prints Albert and Cambon have redefined the classic theme of a model asleep, as a discreet homage to mystery, femininity, and sensuality.


Programme

1 – Où suis-je ? #1
2 – Songe 1
3 – Songe 2
4 – Songe 3
5 – Où suis-je ? #2
6 – Songe 4
7 – Songe 5
8 – Songe 6
9 – Où suis-je ? #3
10 – Songe 7
11 – Songe 8
12 – Songe 9

 

Recorded Octobre/Décembre 2008
Recording, editing, mixing and mastering by Benoît ALBERT at the Nano Studio – Agen – FRANCE