Description of the event from IRCAM
In February 1978, an experiment took place at IRCAM. Pierre Boulez selected five works:
Chamber Concerto by György Ligeti,
Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea by Claude Debussy,
Modes de valeur et d’intensité by Olivier Messiaen,
his own work Éclat,
and A Mirror on Which to Dwell by
Elliott Carter. (sitting to Deleuze's right) ..
He analyzed these 5 works in public, picking out specific passages and
fragments, or bits of isolated speech with the assistance of the
musicians from the Ensemble intercontemporain. Each of these public analysis sessions
was followed by a debate with a smaller number of people including Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and the IRCAM team.
The “experiment” imagined like a workshop was called Le temps musical. It was supposed to end with a wrap-up session
during which the debates made up a sort of sketch, the preparation. Here you can watch the final session (in French) held on February 23, 1978 at the Centre Pompidou.
Unfortunately the music which they listened to we don't get to hear in these recordings but we can look
and find them in you tube or else where .
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We head further west in a few hours. / plateaus having shifted we
... the sun breaks ... the idea is to be in Vancouver Island the end of
the metaphysical world before the week's start next fortnight and less
time is a less a matter tthan a time of cordoned letters or place
a reckon to that which
the narrow word the signature of her eyes her hands of of night
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