Trois questions sur " Solitudes Lunaires "

Pouvez-vous nous expliquer ce voyage en apesanteur ?

UNE SOURCE D'INSPIRATION ET D'ÉVASION

Thierry Moreau : " Avec ton titre " Solitudes Lunaires ", tu rends hommage à Jules Verne, peux, tu nous expliquer ce voyage en apesanteur dont la substance nous évoque à bien des égards l'hommage à Franck Herbert " Dune " de Klaus Schulze. Tu nous invites à l'introspection lunaire ? "

Sequentia Legenda : "J'ai beaucoup d’admirations pour Jules Verne et il me tenait à cœur de lui rendre hommage. Il est à mes yeux un conteur de rêve, un astronome, un professeur de géographie, un aventurier. En lisant ses voyages extraordinaires, c’est tout un univers onirique qui s’ouvre à moi et qui nourrit avec délectation mon imagination. C’est une source d’inspiration et d'évasion. Solitudes Lunaires est un clin d’œil à "Autour de la Lune ". Lorsque j'avais dix ans, je voulais tout comme lui devenir écrivain ! Mes favoris : " De la Terre à la Lune ", " Voyage au centre de la Terre " et " Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ".

Voici un extrait de " Autour de la Lune " : " [...]Le projectile a dû atteindre la Lune au moment où elle était pleine, le 5 à minuit. Nous voici au 11 décembre, ce qui fait six jours. Or, en six fois vingt-quatre heures, sans obscurité, on a le temps de s’installer confortablement. Il me semble que je les vois, nos braves compatriotes, campés au fond d’une vallée, sur le bord d’un ruisseau sélénite, près du projectile à demi enfoncé par sa chute au milieu des débris volcaniques, le capitaine Nicholl commençant ses opérations de nivellement, le président Barbicane mettant au net ses notes de voyage, Michel Ardan embaumant les solitudes lunaires du parfum de ses londrès[...] ".

La littérature et la musique ont des analogies, notamment celle de faire voyager, de faire rêver. Jules Verne a su avec brio faire voyager ses lecteurs, avec cette composition, il était important pour moi de transporter les auditeurs vers une introspection lunaire.

Les chœurs séraphiques, les sonorités scintillantes, les nappes lointaines contribuent à l’ambiance lunaire. La texture rythmique est créée par les oscillateurs du Minimoog poussés en auto-oscillation. L’ensemble est amplifié avec des temps réverbération assez long et des échos stéréophoniques. Les boucles de notes sont comme une suite de mots, racontant une histoire, décrivant le paysage sonore : les mers, les vallées, les cratères, les mystères et la douce clarté solaire. L’imagination joue un grand rôle dans l’interprétation.
Alors, pourquoi ne pas se laisser aller à imaginer le chant des Sélénites accompagnant cette musique lunaire ? Libre à chacun d’interpréter ce poème musical, de vivre à sa façon l'exploration méditative de ce monde sélénique.

Pour la petite anecdote, mon fils aîné, à l’écoute de cette pièce avait écrit ceci : " Papa, lorsque j'écoute cet extrait, j'ai l'impression d'être tout seul sur la Lune ! ".

Et enfin, je tiens à dire, que je suis honoré de savoir que mon titre dans sa substance puisse ainsi être comparé à l'album " Dune " de Klaus Schulze. "

UN MOTIF SONORE EN PERPÉTUEL MOUVEMENT

Thierry Moreau : " Ton travail alterne une ligne mélodique et une séquence qui nous guide vers un voyage, comptes-tu faire un album complet en hommage à l'univers de Jules Verne ou à un roman en particulier ? "

Sequentia Legenda : " Cette alternance peut être comparée aux marées provoquées par la Lune, c’est une trame sonore en perpétuel mouvement, qui va et qui vient tout en s’amplifiant, en se métamorphosant subtilement. Elle berce l’auditeur dans l’espace sonore. Les séquences, elles aussi, sont évolutives, formant des combinaisons, des constellation, s’entremêlant et se confondant dans l’atmosphère globale.

Créer un album en hommage à Jules Verne est en effet une idée intéressante. À voir... "

UNE INVITATION AU RÊVE, AU VOYAGE, À LA MÉDITATION

Thierry Moreau : " Ton imprégnation de la Berlin School est évidente et tu es identifiable immédiatement, ne crois tu pas que la charge émotionnelle qui se dégage est due en partie au fait que tu aimes inviter les gens aux voyages ? En l'occurrence chez Jules Verne ici ? "

Sequentia Legenda : " En dehors du fait que ma musique soit une invitation propice au rêve, au voyage, à la méditation, je pense que les auditeurs perçoivent au travers de mes compositions ma sensibilité, mon authenticité, ma vision d’une Berlin School épurée.

Je partage mon langage musical avec passion et bonheur. Pour profiter pleinement des univers sonores, il faut se donner du temps, se mettre dans de bonnes conditions d’écoute. Par la suite, c'est une association d'émotions qui s'opère et l'immersion pourra alors être vécue pleinement. "

  

Le titre SOLITUDES LUNAIRES a été revisité et remastérisé spécialement pour cette occasion. Les chœurs du Mellotron ont été ajoutés. Le Minimoog est présent pour la partie finale.

Une cymbale est venue soutenir les impulsions rythmiques des oscillateurs en auto-oscillation.

La durée est légèrement plus longue que la version originale du double album " EXTENDED ".

Selenic world 0:00 à 10:08
Electric blue glow of Aristarchus 10:08 à 11:44
Mare Tranquillitatis 11:44 à 18:08
The mysterious side of the Moon 18:08 à 22:56
Mare Serenitatis 22:56 à 26:38

SOLITUDES LUNAIRES

Thierry Moreau
est un graphiste, doué d'une grande sensibilité, un amoureux des arts et de la culture. Un homme ouvert et généreux – un artiste.

Il est issu des Beaux Arts. Il a exercé dans des studios de création et agences de communications. Il a travaillé pour des Labels de disque et pour la presse musicale spécialisée. Il a enseigné dans les Arts Appliqués et Arts Plastique

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Three questions on "Solitudes Lunaires"

Can you explain this weightlessness journey to us?

A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND ESCAPE

Thierry Moreau:
"With your title "Solitudes Lunaires" you pay tribute to Jules Verne, can you explain to us this journey in weightlessness whose substance evokes in many ways the tribute to Franck Herbert "Dune" by Klaus Schulze. Are you inviting us to the lunar introspection?"

Sequentia Legenda:
  "I have a great admiration for Jules Verne and I wanted to pay tribute to him. To me, he is a dream storyteller, an astronomer, a geography teacher, an adventurer. Reading his extraordinary travels, it is a whole dreamlike universe that opens up to me and feeds my imagination with delight. It is a source of inspiration and escape. Solitudes Lunaires is a nod to "Autour de la Lune". When I was ten years old, I wanted to become a writer just like him! My favorites: "From the Earth to the Moon", "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".

Here is an excerpt from "Around the Moon": "[...]The projectile must have reached the Moon when it was full, on the 5th at midnight. Here we are on December 11, which is six days ago. However, in six times twenty-four hours, without darkness, we have time to settle comfortably. It seems to me that I see them, our brave compatriots, camped at the bottom of a valley, on the edge of a selenite stream, near the projectile half sunk by its fall in the middle of volcanic debris, Captain Nicholl beginning his levelling operations, President Barbicane cleaning up his travel notes, Michel Ardan embalming the lunar solitudes with the scent of his londrès[...]".

Literature and music have similarities, in particular that of making people travel, making them dream. Jules Verne knew how to make his readers travel with brio, with this composition, it was important for me to transport the listeners to a lunar introspection.

The seraphic choirs, the sparkling sounds, the distant layers contribute to the lunar atmosphere. The rhythmic texture is created by the Minimoog's oscillators pushed into self-oscillation. The whole is amplified with quite long reverberation times and stereophonic echoes. The note loops are like a series of words, telling a story, describing the sound landscape: the seas, valleys, craters, mysteries and the gentle sunlight. Imagination plays a major role in interpretation.
So why not let yourself go and imagine the song of the Selenites accompanying this lunar music? Everyone is free to interpret this musical poem, to experience in their own way the meditative exploration of this selenical world.

For the anecdote, my eldest son, listening to this play, wrote this: "Dad, when I listen to this extract, I feel like I'm alone on the Moon!"

And finally, I would like to say that I am honoured to know that my title in its substance can thus be compared to the album "Dune" by Klaus Schulze."

A SONIC PATTERN IN PERPETUAL MOVEMENT

Thierry Moreau:
"Your work alternates a melodic line and a sequence that guides us on a journey,
do you plan to make a complete album in homage to Jules Verne's universe or to a particular novel?"

Sequentia Legenda:
  "This alternation can be compared to the tides caused by the Moon, it is a sonic pattern in perpetual movement, which comes and goes while amplifying, while subtly metamorphosing. It rock the listener into the sound space.
The sequences, too, are evolutionary, forming combinations, constellations, intertwining and merging in the global atmosphere.

Creating an album in homage to Jules Verne is indeed an interesting idea. To see..."

AN INVITATION TO DREAM, TO TRAVEL, TO MEDITATE

Thierry Moreau: 
"Your impregnation of the Berlin School is obvious and you are immediately identifiable, don't you think that the emotional charge that emerges is partly due to the fact that you like to invite people to travel? In this instance at Jules Verne's here?"

Sequentia Legenda:
  "Apart from the fact that my music is an invitation to dream, to travel, to meditate, I think that listeners perceive through my compositions my sensitivity, my authenticity, my vision of a cleansed Berlin School.

I share my musical language with passion and happiness. To fully enjoy the sound worlds, you have to give yourself time, put yourself in good listening conditions. Thereafter, an association of emotions takes place and the immersion can then be fully experienced."

 

SOLITUDES LUNAIRES [XMas 2018 Version] by Sequentia Legenda

(This track is FREE from December 24, 2018 to January 1, 2019)

 
🎁 Here is a version for Christmas !

The title SOLITUDES LUNAIRES has been revisited and remastered especially for this occasion. The Mellotron choirs have been added. The Minimoog is present for the final.
A cymbal came to support the rhythmic impulses of the oscillators in self-oscillation.
The duration is slightly longer than the original version of the double album "EXTENDED".

Selenic world 0:00 to 10:08
Electric blue glow of Aristarchus 10:08 to 11:44
Mare Tranquillitatis 11:44 to 18:08
The mysterious side of the Moon 18:08 to 22:56
Mare Serenitatis 22:56 to 26:38

Enjoy your gift!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Thierry Moreau
is a graphic designer, gifted with great sensitivity, a lover of the arts and culture.
An open and generous man ‒ an artist.

He is a graduate of the Beaux Arts. He has worked in creative studios and communications agencies. He has worked for record labels and for the specialized music press.
He has taught in the Applied and Plastic Arts.

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The musical vision of Sequentia Legenda

The essentials of the Berlin School

Rigour, Sensitivity and Creativity are my motto 🎯

I have no intention of reinventing or revolutionizing the Berlin School,
I simply and without pretensions wish to bring my palette of sound, an extra colour and to be able to lay my stone to this edifice in order to contribute to an extended vision of this beautiful musical movement.

I sometimes hear myself say that solos are absent from my compositions.
They are not the fundamentals of my music, nor my priority.
It is neither a sign of immaturity nor an oversight, it is simply my musical vision, a well thought out vision. Nevertheless, although sometimes subtle and furtive, the musical phrases, the melodic lines are present in my soundscapes.

I'm not racing for solos, effects or instruments, but I'm looking for the purest possible overall atmosphere, which is representative of what a Berlin School music is to me. On the other hand, rigour, sensitivity and creativity are my motto. Play on nuances, on transpositions, find the balance between harmony and timbrality.

It is essential for me to go back to the essential:
towards a return to the sources of the Berlin School 🎯

Speak to the listener's heart and soul 🎨

During my childhood, I did painting and today I work on my music like a painter.
I use a sound palette to paint the background of my canvas. Then, in a progressive way and with great sensitivity, I emphasize certain details, I maximize certain contrasts, I mix colors to give shape and life to the sound panorama.

It is essential for me to offer the listener a total freedom of listening, a musical space that reveals itself to the listener, offering new surprises and discoveries. They are instrumental journeys, immersive worlds, where music gives free rein to the imagination.

I see my music as an invitation, as a sharing with the listener, as my language expressing my emotions and speaking to the listener's heart and soul.

⚒️ Notes after notes I sculpt the sequence 🎼

One of my favorite tools is the sequencer.

I manage with him to bring out my repetitive loops.
In this phase of work, I am like a sculptor, who notes after notes sculpt the sequence, working the sound material with rigour, sensitivity and patience.

Setting up sequential lines is often time-consuming, but it's the price to pay for a result that meets my expectations. I am a demanding person, looking to do my best to get the most out of myself. The sequencer, the sequences, are the pillars of my structure. 

My vision of sequencing: loops in perpetual evolution.

Testimonial 💬

Isaac Civilo (Santiago, Chile): "There is a reason why I chose to take pictures of the latest albums by Sequentia Legenda next to my Frank Herbert collection
(and other sci-fi authors). 

As many people know, Frank Herbert was one of the greatest, if not the greatest science fiction author, but his books were never rooted in space ships, laser beams, and technology in general. On the contrary, they are very philosophical. When I started reading Dune I was 13 years old and I was impressed by the vast landscapes his writing conjured up in my mind. 

I have the same feeling when I listen to Sequentia Legenda:
vast landscapes whether they are endless deserts, raging seas, grey skies, the unfathomable space, or mysterious forests. And, same as those places, its compositions incredibly nuanced, sometimes peaceful and reflective, sometimes dynamic and furious. 

Sequentia Legenda's music is full of little details that can only be absorbed after repeated listenings which is, after all, the true hallmark of good music.
And, another little reference:
Dune by Klaus Schulze was also inspired by Dune so there is definitely an invisible thread that ties all of us together in this sonic world."

⌛ Ici et Maintenant ⏳
(Second extract from my future album RENAISSANCE)

After an introduction to experimental, concrete and drones sounds, the enigmatic atmosphere gradually fades away and gives way to a benevolent global atmosphere.

The arrival of the luminous pads, supported punctually by Gregorian-style choirs, amplifies the notion of infinity. The soundtrack is then filled with multiple layers and sequential loops.

Later, a regular and deep pulse joins the ensemble to give even more life. It is like a heart that begins to beat, heralding a rhythmic surge.

The snare drum, then a roll of toms complete the climax of this composition, leaving the vaporous pads and the empathetic choirs ornamented with the atmospheric and spiritual finale. It is peace, contemplative, here and now (Ici et Maintenant),
a return to the roots of the Berlin School.

RENAISSANCE: Explore the Sound Universe
Official Release 17 May 2018

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