Quebec-Mexico Project: Quasar flies to Mexico to present four creations by Mexican and Franco-Canadian composers

MONTREAL, May 4, 2023 - Following the Montreal-Mexico concert presented in collaboration with Le Vivier and Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, the exchange continues in Monterrey and Mexico City for a series of concerts and workshops with the four composers involved. Seize the opportunity to attend the fruit of a unique collaborative work of several months that opens the discussion between French-Canadian and Mexican contemporary music.

ABOUT THE PIECES

Geneviève Ackerman, originally from Quebec, was inspired by her repertoire of multiple sounds of Quasar (QPhonics) to compose Générosité par l’éphémère, a work highlighting the multi-phonic sounds that unfold in space by being replayed in different materials, such as cardboard and metal (tam-tams, gongs, etc.), for example. The Mexican composer Eduardo Caballero expresses his interest in pulses in all their variations in Puls[o][e]… spectral theater of reflections: “stable pulses of timbre/harmonic spectrum, unstable pulsations; airy pulsations, pulsations like drops of water; beat polyphony; homophony of pulses”. Sophie Dupuis, a native of New Brunswick, looked at the concepts of beats and quarter tones with a particular image in mind: the bouncing ball, an image found several times in her work Rebonds cosmiques. Finally, Mexican composer Alejandro Padilla, whose work process always begins with an abstract sketch guiding the writing of a piece, offers Fragments, pieces, breaks, a work he defines as nervous, fragmented and capricious.