voir (remix)

Programme Note

voir (remix) is a re-working of the soundfiles used in my 2021 work voir dans le secret. That work involved three musicians playing Jean-Francois Laporte's Totem Électrique instruments (membranes and tubes driven by compressed air) along with electric guitar, bass clarinet, and percussion. The sound files are derived from processed samples of the Totem Électrique instruments along with speech recordings made by each of the six musicians. The text for these was taken from Derrida's Donner La Mort. This begins with the question "Voir dans le secret. Qu'est-ce que cela peut vouloir dire?"

Though a philosophical work, Donner la Mort is also poetic in both its content and means of expression. It speaks to perception via various senses and in particular of the penetration of open secrets by paying attention not to what is before one's eyes but rather to what one can hear.