Dominique Lemaître: De l’espace trouver la fin et le milieu

Featuring

Dan Barrett
Stanislav Orlovsky
Michiyo Suzuki
Jed Distler
Dominique Lemaître

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Dominique Lemaître's handling of space in his music is inspired by fine arts, architecture, poetry, literature, astrophysics, mythology, and ecology.

Performer Biography

Jed Distler, the pianist on this album, gained acclaim for his transcriptions of jazz piano solos by Art Tatum and Bill Evans and holds a Guinness Record for the world's largest keyboard ensemble.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dominique Lemaître's musical palette is influenced by his knowledge of composers like Claude Debussy, Edgard Varèse, and György Ligeti, among others.

Album & Artwork

The album title, "De l'espace trouver la fin et le milieu" (To find the end and the middle of space), is a quote from Charles Baudelaire's poem 'Les plaintes d'un Icare'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dominique Lemaître's musical philosophy incorporates underlying modality, pole notes, distinct coloring of light and shadow, polyrhythmic stratification, and singular tone sequences.

Composer Biography

Dominique Lemaître, the composer, has written over one hundred pieces, ranging from electroacoustic to vocal chamber music and from pedagogical to concertante works.

Performer Biography

Dan Barrett, the cellist on this album, is described as 'a brilliant and driven cellist, composer, and conductor' by the Huffington Post, and his playing as 'fire and ice' by The New York Times.