Étude de stage : Reflets

The text and the video excerpt below document Philippe Langlois’s book, Les cloches d’Atlantis, Musique électroacoustique et cinéma, Archéologie et histoire d’un art sonore, éditions mf, Paris, 2012.

Each young composer / trainee who frequents the musique concrète studios must submit to the composition of a trainee study (étude de stage), deliberately subject to the rules of fundamental research and to a compositional discipline established by Pierre Schaeffer, based on a preestablished score.

The rules are as follows: a choice limited to the sounds defined by the Schaefferian typology, their use exclusively in the original form resulting from the recording and, finally, their distribution in time according to a rigorous master plan.

Below, the preliminary unpublished score annotated in Ivo Malec's own hand.

From this master plan, Ivo Malec composes Reflets at the end of his first training course at the GRM in 1961.

Below, exclusively: the totally unpublished facsimile of the manuscript score of Reflets by Ivo Malec, after the eponymous film by Piotr Kamler (1961).