Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992.
Lac Noir - La Serpente is part of Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi's Lac Noir, a composite work inspired by a serpentine female creature or 'snake woman' that he saw in Transylvania in 1976, with a total of 33 pieces using various media, 24 by himself and 9 by other artists. All the materials used in Lac Noir were gathered on the land of the snake-woman between 1990 and 1992. The first coordinated broadcast ran from June to October 2019, like a theatrical display of media.
At the end of May 1992, in Provence, in his Summer studio not far from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Bernard Parmegiani played me the first musical moments he had worked on from the sounds he and Christian Zanési had collected in Negreni in October 1990. A few days after this listening session, on 4th June, I wrote him a letter. I didn't mean to take control of what was to become the ninth movement of his composition, but to share with him some of the resonances I had heard in what he had composed, which mingled with my dreams and memories of the Transylvanian snake-woman, and outlined possible concordances with the other pieces underway for Lac Noir.
In the midst of the garish chaos of the fair and its spectacular stunts, there could spread out - still, silent eye of the cyclone...
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- 1. La traversée
- 2. La voix
- 3. Nature mêlée I
- 4. Nature mêlée II
- 5. Le cercle
- 6. Tsiganie
- 7. Rouge et Blanc
- 8. Marchand de cloches
- 9. La Serpente
