Organ Ocean: Waves of Sound

28 avril 2017 | L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal

Les adjectifs qui sont utilisés pour décrire l'océan (scintillant, immense, monstrueux, apaisant, effrayant) peuvent également être utilisés pour décrire l'orgue, ses sonorités et sa présence matérielle. Ce récital d'orgue est inspiré par cette idée. Il consiste en des œuvres musicales des 20 e et 21e siècles qui puisent ces caractéristiques distinctives dans l'orgue et, d'une manière différente, dans l'océan. Des textures chatoyantes, des rythmes calmantes et des grandes ondes sonores enveloppe l'audience.

 

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PROJET SATELLITE (en anglais) DE GERALD ENS (THÉOLOGIEN)

"I had not properly noticed Psalm 29 until I first heard Joel Peters’s “The Voice of the Lord.” His song drew me into the text and its emphasis on the turbulent, raw, and overwhelming power of God’s voice. When I was asked to preach on the baptism of Jesus I knew I wanted to focus on the voice of the Lord, rather than the other action in the scene or even the words that are spoken from heaven. I wanted, in the specific and radical context of Jesus’s baptism, to present the power of God’s voice to the congregation, as Psalm 29 and “The Voice of the Lord” had presented this voice to me.

I read the baptism of Jesus as an anointing for suffering servanthood. The question, then, posed to me by Psalm 29 and Joel’s piece was how to read together this suffering servanthood with the kind of power we see in the voice of the Lord. There is a struggle in the piece between clarity and chaos. The refrain enunciates its clear progression only to disintegrate into a tumult of shimmering sound; but it receives its clarity precisely from its repeated submission to chaotic sound (against which it emerges as the orienting refrain of the piece). Perhaps we here have a sense of the way that true power manifests itself in servanthood – and the way that truthful appearance manifests as already disappearing. Truthful refrains are not territorial.

I wanted to follow the form of “The Voice of the Lord” by puncturing the sermon with the repeated clarion call of God’s voice."