Dictée

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Recording of Bernard Gagnon's Dictée for tape. The majority of the material was executed in real time. The instruments used are voice, a pencil, and also a few oscillator sounds. An oscillator provided a wave that was delayed by tape, and then turned into a voltage to modulate the early sound: a self-modulating delay loop. The piece is a reflection on the anxiety of first learning to write as well as on the degrees of the distances of the writing. The dictation comes from a loudspeaker, while the writer's reactions and his perception of the loudspeaker are captured on the … continued below

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Gagnon, Bernard 1981.

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  • Main Title: Dictée
  • Series Title: MISAME

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Recording of Bernard Gagnon's Dictée for tape. The majority of the material was executed in real time. The instruments used are voice, a pencil, and also a few oscillator sounds. An oscillator provided a wave that was delayed by tape, and then turned into a voltage to modulate the early sound: a self-modulating delay loop. The piece is a reflection on the anxiety of first learning to write as well as on the degrees of the distances of the writing. The dictation comes from a loudspeaker, while the writer's reactions and his perception of the loudspeaker are captured on the other channel using a microphone. We hear in succession and by degrees of writing:
1. The dictation only.
2. The presence of someone who listens. This presence is signaled by a microphone feedback on the other channel and then a cough. It is good here to specify that the feedback effects are voluntary and controlled.
3. The message changes channel because it becomes the pencil noise of the writer.
4. The transformations that the message undergoes as well as the act of writing of the character who, one realizes, dictates himself.
5. Echoes of his reactions, a kind of subjective consciousness. The subject is played with pencil.
6. Transformations of its same reactions.
7. A kind of connivance gun between dictator and dictation.
8. Bursting of personality.

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1 sound recording (7 min., 07 sec.)

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Mnemothèque Internationale des Arts Electroacoustiques

Sound recordings of electroacoustic music from the archive of the International de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB). The works were created in the IMEB studios or submitted by participants of the Festival Synthèse or the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition. Access is restricted to the UNT community.

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  • 1981

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  • Jan. 23, 2018, 7:43 a.m.

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  • April 28, 2020, 4:21 p.m.

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Gagnon, Bernard. Dictée, audio recording, 1981; Bourges, France. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062392/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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