Encounters and “new emotions”: Pascal Dusapin pictured by five collaborators
This research focuses on five of Pascal Dusapin’s important collaborators: Barbara Hannigan, Armand Angster, Julien Bilodeau, Julie-Anne Derome, and Samy Moussa. In the spring of 2018, each were asked to share what led them to Dusapin—either through written form or by means of an interview—expounding upon the impact of this encounter on their artistic lives. Offering vivid memories and stories ranging from 1984 to our present day, each collaborator describes a different facet of the composer’s creative universe, yet similarities in these stories abound as well. Stories appear as different in their context and in the specificity of the examples given, and yet they revolve around a shared notion of Dusapin’s artistic motivation, that centers on a free quest for “new emotions”, mediated through aesthetic and personal encounters.