Flore Laurentienne, the incomparable project by Mathieu David Gagnon, announces his new album '8 tableaux.' The composer, orchestrator, and musician draws inspiration from the works...

Flore Laurentienne, the incomparable project by Mathieu David Gagnon, announces his new album '8 tableaux.' The composer, orchestrator, and musician draws inspiration from the works of Jean Paul Riopelle with this new offering.

Mathieu shares with us the creative process behind the new opus; 'Music is an art that unfolds over time, whereas painting captures a specific moment in the artist's creative flow. With 8 tableaux, I sought to give a musical form to a canvas.'

'But how to achieve this, how to freeze time in music?

By basing the structure of the pieces on recurring cycles, one can make the ear believe that the music was there before and will also be there afterward. Without a beginning and without an end, only the freeze-frame remains, musically...

Following this approach, I quickly realized that both music and painting appeal to contemplation,' he explains.

'Another concept I worked on with this record is the notion of randomness in music. Riopelle is often associated with the automatist movement. His great works from the 1950s rather evoke for me a romantic abstraction or even a grand organic and organized chaos (a link to be made with nature here). It is from this reflection that I tried to integrate the notion of controlled randomness or rather, chaos filtered by emotion,' concludes the composer.