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En 2005, l’ARMuQ/SQRM fêtait son 25 e anniversaire d’existence. Répondant aux questions de la rédactrice en chef des présents Cahiers , Sylvia L’Écuyer, l’auteure expose d’abord les motifs qui ont poussé les membres fondateurs à créer ce qui s’appelait alors l’Association pour l’avancement de la recherche en musique du Québec (ARMuQ). Cette section est suivie d’un aperçu des différentes phases de l’évolution de l’association. Enfin, dans une troisième section intitulée « Problématiques et souhaits d’avenir », Louise Bail tente de dégager très brièvement les liens que l’ARMuQ/SQRM a développés avec les institutions d’enseignement supérieur et de circonscrire la place que prennent les chercheurs indépendants au sein de l’organisme. Son propos s’emploie à faire ressortir les problèmes particuliers que posent le fonctionnement et l’existence d’une telle association. Enfin, elle propose des réflexions et suggère quelques pistes d’avenir à partir de son implication en tant que membre fondateur, membre régulier et présidente sortante du conseil d’administration. , In 2005, the ARMuQ/SQRM celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. Responding to questions from the Cahier’s current Editor-in-Chief, Sylvia L’Écuyer, the author begins by discussing the motives that gave rise to the Association pour l’avancement de la recherche en musique du Québec, as it was then called. This is followed by a survey of the association’s various transformations over the years. In a third section entitled “Problématiques et souhaits d’avenir” (“Challenges and wishes for the future”), Louise Bail describes the ties that bind the ARMuQ/SQRM to post-secondary education institutions, and identifies the role of independent scholars within the organisation. The aim of her study is to discern the particular challenges that the existence and operations of such an association create. Finally, she reflects and advises on the association’s future from the perspective of her own role as founding member, regular member, and past Chair of the Board of Directors.

Cet article porte sur une intervention musicale et interculturelle de groupe qui visait l’amélioration du bien-être psychologique et l’intégration des personnes réfugiées dans la ville de Québec. L’expérience a regroupé 20 personnes, dont 10 Québécois de longue date et 10 personnes réfugiées nouvellement arrivées, qui se sont réunies à 10 occasions pour échanger et jouer de la musique ensemble. Les propos recueillis avant, pendant et après la démarche démontrent que l’activité a contribué à l’amélioration du sentiment de bien-être des réfugiés, mais aussi d’une majorité des Québécois de longue date. Les propos montrent que la démarche a aussi contribué à l’intégration des réfugiés.

Quebec-born playwright Chantal Bilodeau has been responding to the challenges of dramatizing anthropogenic climate change by developing an eight-part Arctic Cycle, each play of which is set in one of the nations that claims Arctic territory. Sila (2014) immerses audiences into a complex network of humans, animals, and mythical beings crisscrossing the Canadian Arctic. These movements circle around the Inuit concept of sila, which is the life-giving force of breath and voice. Thus, the sonic world of Sila focuses on voices speaking words, on performance poetry, and on the sounds of breath and wind. Bilodeau’ s second Arctic Cycle play, Forward (2016), addresses the long-term impact of Fridtjof Nansen’s polar exploration of the 1890s on Norway’s economy and society. In terms of sound, Forward features multiple musical performances rangingfrom traditional songs to European opera arias and Lieder to contemporary Norwegian electro-pop. The sonic features of both plays stress interdependence across time, space, as well as (non-)human, earthly, and metaphysical realms. Sila and Forward address climate change in a non-universalizing manner which promotes a heterarchical (rather than hierarchical) aesthetic fit for a growing awareness of planetary relationality.

Formed as a musician and a clarinetist, Louise Campbell is now a music mediator. Based in Montreal, she practices her profession through several structures and for a wide variety of audiences (schoolchildren, professionals, people with disabilities ...) all around Canada, but mainly in Quebec. In this interview, Louise Campbell recounts her experience as a mediator, her (non)-formation in this profession, as well as many aspects in her practice. With the musical object and the creation at the heart of her workshops, Louise Campbell always seeks to establish a “horizontal” exchange relationship with each person she meets.

TAGS by Joane Hétu and TanGRAM by Danielle Palardy Roger are two written works that showcase graphic scores in improvised music. TAGS creates an encounter between Ensemble SuperMusique, the saxophone quartet Quasar, and the Bozzini Quartet. The musicians make “sound graffiti” on an imaginary wall represented by a sequence of timed sections on a descriptive score where the composer uses different instrumental combinations. Using an aesthetic of articulated gestures, the work is made through these multiple signatures. TanGRAM brings together twenty instrumentalists from Ensemble SuperMusique. The game of Tangram is represented in the form of a graphic score where each piece has specific musical properties to be interpreted by the musicians. Rich in combinatorial and symmetrical games, the work presents Orion: a continuous figure, a slowly moving flow where each musician seeks their own way in a global sound.

Partant d’une caractéristique de l’environnement artistique à Montréal - le décloisonnement des esthétiques et des formes d’expressions -, cette enquête compile les propos de six créateurs et artistes sonores de trois générations distinctes qui ont vécu ce contexte : Monique Jean et Jean-François Laporte (génération 1960), Patrick Saint-Denis et Cléo Palacio-Quintin (génération 1970), Adam Basanta et Émilie Payeur (génération 1980). Chacun se prononce sur quatre thématiques principales : la définition de leur pratique artistique, leurs réflexions sur la pluridisciplinarité ou la polyvalence, la perception de l’environnement artistique entre leurs débuts et aujourd’hui, et leur rapport à l’enseignement institutionnel versus l’apprentissage en autodidacte. Les réponses mettent en lumière la diversité des perceptions alimentant la diversité des pratiques, les sensibilités du contexte propres à chaque génération, ainsi que des visions personnelles de la ville quant à ses institutions et activités artistiques.

En 2013, Xavier Dolan, cinéaste, acteur et metteur en scène québécois prolifique, réalise le vidéoclip College Boy, chanson du groupe de musique français Indochine qui s’articule autour d’un jeune garçon queer qui est victime d’homophobie dans un internat. Cet article propose une analyse de ce vidéoclip en se focalisant sur la mise en scène de la violence et des affects négatifs. Nous étudions d’abord le débat provoqué par la diffusion et la censure du clip en France. Ensuite, à partir de la théorie du “backward feeling” développée par Heather Love dans Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), nous analysons la manière dont la représentation de la violence dans l’œuvre de Dolan remet en question l’ordre hétéronormatif. Nous défendons la thèse qu’en s’attaquant de front aux institutions qui sont les véritables agents de la violence homophobe, College Boy contribue à la conservation archivistique de l’expérience queer et crée ainsi une possibilité d’émancipation face à l’hétéronormativité.

Montreal composer Jocelyne Binet's "Cycle de Melodies sur des Poemes de Paul Eluard" was programmed in 1955 by the French baritone Gerard Souzay in a performance that was most likely the world premiere. Unfortunately, Binet's song cycle never was published, and the work soon was forgotten. In the fall of 2016, the author discovered Bineet's original handwritten manuscript pages in holdings of Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec and began the process of reconstructing the score. This article discusses the editorial journal undertaken when resurrecting Binet's forgotten song cycle, which was subsequently published in 2018 by Classical Vocal Reprints.

In the present academic research connecting geography and music,a real gap remains in the study of different issues associated with both music and geography and, particularly, to the recent music geographies. This paper advances a new geographical approach in music geography highlighting the relevance of time and space in music, in the artist‟s outstanding contribution to music and in their recognition from the local to the global. Particularly the study is focused on one of the most emblematic music artists of the world, analyzing through a spatio-temporal investigation the prestigious awards achieved by the singer Celine Dion, since this singer remains both a real music legend and an iconic artist gaining multiple awards and thoroughly appreciated and admired for her outstanding contribution to music and global popular culture. The research bases on such specific methods as internet research, visual methodologies, bibliographical analysis and geographic information systems (GIS). The latter is used to provide a professional map illustrating the spatio-temporal distribution of the multiple awards received by Dion the artist. The findings of the research highlight the highest scale of appreciation an artist can receive. The results of the study also suggest that the outstanding contribution of the greatest artists of the world, acknowledged by the highest national, international and global forums, provide significant information about their artistic involvement in the global popular culture. They have a strong relevance both in space and in time, thus labeling different cultural decades and distinct places and spaces throughout the world.

Un article de la revue Cap-aux-Diamants, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Maps and map-making have been used in a range of research about musical phenomena in cities. Yet, most of these studies focus on musicians; few have attempted to understand how people take part in a city’s musical life in terms of event attendance. Likewise, little has been said about the attendance habits of immigrants, despite the quick transformation of urban populations due to the expansion of human migration. Approaching a subject that has received so little attention as the dynamics of participation of immigrants in a city’s musical life therefore requires an inventive research design. Building from a methodology combining semi-structured interviews and observation, I used maps and map-making to deepen the analysis of North African immigrants’ cultural practices in Montreal. Trying to give a spatial legibility to their musical activities in the city generated many technical and theoretical concerns, but was also helpful for reflecting on the project differently and highlighting some characteristics of the data that were not obvious from the initial fieldwork. In brief, maps and map-making proved to be efficient complementary tools to ethnography, bringing new insights and raising new queries about the practices being considered.

In this review, I discuss the architectonics of sound composition according to sound artist and designer Nancy Tobin. This chapbook advocates for a comprehensively integrated presence of a sound artist in the processes of rehearsal and espouses a dramaturgy of hearing. Tobin’s distinction between hearing and listening gives forth onto a series of self-studies of her experience of spatial and temporal arrangements presented in the form of e-mails to mentees. Her appreciation for the acoustics of the performance space extends to the composition of sound to be heard (on occasion as boldly interventionist) and the technologies of broadcasting it: the choice and placement of speakers, as well as their interaction with the performers. Tobin argues for a definition of sound composition for performance as a complex collaboration with the production—curatorial in terms of the space of ephemerality. My review concurs with the efficacy of her approach by my recognition of the moments in productions that have remained as some of the most memorable of my theatregoing.