This program, presented in collaboration with Ballet Opéra Pantomime and the FTA, will be followed by a discussion with sound designer Yves Daoust.
On stage as in cinema, sound sets the scene with formidable efficiency, all the more powerful because it acts directly on perception, summoning personal imagery beyond the grasp of conscious awareness. In Querelle de Roberval, the design team took the bet of evocation through sound, drawing on the singular approach developed in the 1970s by the NFB's Sound Design and Production Workshop. Three films in which sound is given the leading role: Jour après jour (1962), for which Maurice Blackburn composed his most ambitious musique concrète score; Le plan sentimental, which reveals Yves Daoust's clear penchant for sonic docufiction; and finally, L'âge de chaise, whose musical fabric would later take on an autonomous life in Daoust's compositional work under the title Quatuor.


