Analysis of Espace/Escape, an Electroacoustic Piece by Francis Dhomont
Part of the Cycle de l’errance, Espace/Escape is a work of transits, otherworldliness, poetry, and vertigo. With these various qualities in mind, a team of four students under the guidance of Martin Bédard has conducted an extensive study of this work. Through this exploration, we see how a myriad of different aspects of this electroacoustic work reflect the language of Francis Dhomont, an emblematic figure of the electroacoustic tradition. Adopting the viewpoints of many eminent theorists, we measure meanings, materializations, formalizations, intricacies, and developments of a musical discourse unique to this work and its author. This is a voyage at once reflexive and turbulent, touching on themes of childhood, travel, distance, dreams, flight, the familiar and the foreign.