Pierre Boulez – Explosante-Fixe
Transitoire VII – Interstitiel 1
Transitoire V – Interstitiel 2
Originel
Composed By – Pierre Boulez
Conductor – Pierre Boulez
Orchestra [Ensemble] – Ensemble InterContemporain
Technician [Ircam/electro-acoustic Realization] – Andrew Gerzso
Recorded at IRCAM Espace De Projection, Paris
October 1994
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[*]…explosante-fixe… (French: …exploding-fixed…) is a piece of music composed by Pierre Boulez. Initially conceived in 1971 as a memorial for Igor Stravinsky, who died in April of that year, Boulez composed several different versions of the work between 1972 and 1993, culminating in a piece for solo MIDI-flute and chamber orchestra.
[*]The title of the work is taken from the concluding line of the first chapter of André Breton’s L’amour fou (1937): « La beauté convulsive sera érotique-voilée, explosante-fixe, magique-circonstancielle, ou ne sera pas » (Convulsive beauty will be erotic-veiled, exploding-fixed, magical-circumstantial, or it will not be at all)
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