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Christian Clozier, Jacques Lejeune

Lettre À Une Demoiselle / Dichotomie / Petite Suite / D'Une Multitude En Fête (LP)

Label: La Voix De Son Maître

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

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€137.00
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Very rare 1970 LP on La Voix De Son Maître "Perspectives Musicales" with optical covers with four electro-acoustic masterpieces realized at the GRM. No optical plastic bag.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM  - No optical plastic bag. Lettre À Une Demoiselle / Dichotomie / Petite Suite / D'Une Multitude En Fête on La Voix De Son Maître divides its sides between Christian Clozier and Jacques Lejeune, two voices from Bourges's GMEB that the EMI label presents to the national public. Clozier we've already encountered alongside Françoise Barrière; Lejeune completes the picture with pieces whose titles range from epistolary intimacy to collective celebration.

Clozier's contributions bear the mark of his work with the Synthi 100, that massive synthesizer the GMEB acquired and which shaped the studio's sonic identity through the 1970s. "Dichotomie" announces division, splitting, the separation of wholes into parts that may or may not recombine. The electroacoustic treatment fractures sound into components, examining each before allowing reassembly. It's analytical music in the best sense: taking things apart to understand how they work.

Lejeune developed an electroacoustic language more lyrical than his colleagues, open to melody, to cantability, to qualities that hard avant-garde often banished as sentimental. "Lettre À Une Demoiselle" (Letter to a Young Lady) suggests Julio Cortázar's surrealist story of the same name, though Lejeune's piece carries its own mysteries without requiring literary reference. The Petite Suite confirms this lyrical inclination: small, modest, without monumental pretensions. "D'Une Multitude En Fête" (Of a Celebrating Multitude) shifts to collective joy, proving that electroacoustic music could evoke festivity as readily as introspection.

The LP documents that Bourges school which for decades offered alternative to Parisian centralism. It's not a question of quality (Paris produced masterpieces, but so did Bourges) but of pluralism: new French music didn't reduce to the GRM, other laboratories existed, other poetics, other obstinacies. La Voix De Son Maître, EMI's French imprint, records them all, preserving evidence of a decentralized experimental culture that later consolidation would obscure.

Details
Cat. number: 2C 061-11632
Year: 1970
Notes:
Color postage stamp labels with White Stereo at top "Oeuvres réalisées au Groupe De Recherches Musicales de l'O.R.T.F." = Works composed in the studios of Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) de l'Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF). Made in France by Pathé Marconi The first picture shows the cover with the transparent printed sleeve. The sleeve and cover both have patterns of brown lines that together produce a moiré effect. A-side track parts here are numbered as on the cover and label.