{"id":11338,"date":"2023-10-12T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:25:41","slug":"bruno-duplants-sombres-miroirs-reviewed-by-the-sound-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11338","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Duplant\u2019s \u201cSombres Miroirs\u201d reviewed by\u00a0The Sound Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/188\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cronica188-2022_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11030\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cronica188-2022_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cronica188-2022_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cronica188-2022_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cronica188-2022_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cronica188-2022_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another splendid work by\u00a0<strong>Bruno Duplant<\/strong>, one of my current personal favourites of enigmatic and sometimes minimal composition. His\u00a0<em>Sombres Miroirs<\/em>\u00a0(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/cronicaelectronica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CRONICA<\/a>\u00a0188-2022) is, by his standards, positively teeming with activity and events, and in this floating richness we can hear everything from backwards orchestras to uncertain cosmic gyrations \u2013 planets spinning or nebulae drifting into the distance. Profound, too, are the thoughts of the composer himself who conceived and executed this fascinating suite in two parts; he muses, not without some melancholy, on such deep matters as nature, humanity, civilisation, and the fate of the planet. What perceptions does he come away with? \u201cDark in my eyes and embittered in my heart,\u201d comes the stern reply. The overall effect of the composition isn\u2019t intended to induce unhappiness, however, and he takes things as a cosmic cycle where \u201chope and despair [move] in ever-recurring successions\u201d. More than once, these \u201cdark mirrors\u201d put me in mind of my beloved Ligeti, showing Duplant can successfully deliver the micro-tonal thing without straying into ambient gloop or soppy drone. I wonder if it really is orchestrated, or made with tapes and keyboards? Either way, a beautiful work for gazing into the abyss at the heart of everything. Glory be! (13\/07\/2022) <em>Ed Pinsent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesoundprojector.com\/2023\/10\/11\/together-into-the-abyss\/\">The Sound Projector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another splendid work by\u00a0Bruno Duplant, one of my current personal favourites of enigmatic and sometimes minimal composition. His\u00a0Sombres Miroirs\u00a0(CRONICA\u00a0188-2022) is, by his standards, positively teeming with activity and events, and in this floating richness we can hear everything from backwards orchestras to uncertain cosmic gyrations \u2013 planets spinning or nebulae drifting into the distance. Profound, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bruno Duplant\u2019s \u201cSombres Miroirs\u201d reviewed by\u00a0The Sound Projector&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[551,506],"class_list":["post-11338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-551","tag-bruno-duplant","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11340,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions\/11340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}