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The name canopy, which comes from a Greek word meaning “mosquito”, today designates the upper zone of the equatorial forest, inaccessible other than by air. This environment is populated not only by mosquitoes, but by a host of animal species, many of which remain unknown, and will disappear before they are discovered and studied. The recordings I made in 1972 in Indonesia and in the Bako reserve in Sarawak, northern Borneo, are presented here and used as models. They include the sounds of insects, birds and amphibians, many of which remain unidentified.
Comment
Robins, calandra and calandrelle larks, Dupont’s sirli, mountain whistle, forest redstart and blue-winged cossypus share the sound space with other birds, insects and amphibians recorded by myself or others. Their transfer to the keyboards of two samplers allows them to be flexibly integrated into the instrumental writing, where the rhythmic dimension most often dominates.
Instrumentation
2 samplers, 4 vl, 2 vla, 2 vc, 1 db.First performance
11.30.2003, Bruxelles, ArtZoyd et Musiques nouvelles, dir J-P.Dessy
Publisher
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aux écologistesRecords
Expériences de vol 4-5-6
