Rodolphe Blois
The Colours of Silence
This work is a celebration of silence and soft sounds. Initially composed for and presented in the wild environment of Stradbroke Island in 1996, it is almost entirely made with manipulated insect sounds found in the bush of the island. The bush version was an exploration of a possible acoulogical and ecological co-habitation between the electro-acoustic world and the wild environment. This winter version is woven with some unmodified insect sounds from which the textures are made. Rodolphe Blois (b. I 956, Paris, France) has been involved in electro-acoustic composition for nearly twenty years. His experience includes a live experimental electro-acoustic music group, numerous collaborations with musicians, visual aixl multi-media artists, theatre companies, film makers and radio producers as well as a series of works for the National Museum of Orsay in Paris. He has taught electro acoustic music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music between 1989 and 1996. Rodolphe Blois uses concrete and synthetic sounds digitally processed and edited. He is a follower of Musique Concr�te and Acousmatics school. His works for which he has received State Government funding in 1995, 1996, and 1997, is exploring the formal, anecdotal, and metaphoric dimensions of fixed and invisible sound. Blois' interest in the sound environment and in silence has led him to composing about aixl for the wilderness, reflecting on a possible acoulogy and ecology, a tuning of culture with/to Nature, a cohabitation between electroacoustic sounds and wild acoustic ones.
SONRR/T PRESENTED BY GRIFFITH ARTWORKS R BR I SBRNE FESTI URL FR I N6E EUENT 8pm Wednesday 28th May, 1997 The Arena, Nathan Campus Griffith University
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