Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles

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Productions SuperMusique presents a world premiere

Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles
Libretto and music by Danielle Palardy Roger

Bruiducœur l’invincible
Seul si seul, entouré de ses seuls
Bruiducœur va mourir (ELLE)

The last moments of a man’s agony, Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles is a “new music” oratorio composed by Montréal musician Danielle Palardy Roger. This secular ceremony revolves around three characters: LUI (HIM), who is dying, scared and delirious; ELLE (HER), who acts as an ironic witness, describing his fears and his struggle; and the CHOIR and SOLOISTS, empathic, representing us, the others, as we too will die one day. A wild and ironic elegy about our mortality.

Fini nini ninini ninini
Mon souffle ce roufle qui me fait vibraphone (LUI)

Written for two narrators, two soloists, two percussionists and a thirteen-piece mixed choir self-conducted mixed choir, this work is a sung, screamed, declaimed, chanted poem. Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles takes the form of a recitative over which the counterpoints of choir and soloists criss-cross and overlap: rebel and resigned prayers — sacred and secular chants — natural and explorative voices. At the heart of the work, articulatory phonetics and vocalism serve as the bearers of meaning and the elements that express emotions.