Le piano et le torrent New album |
MARIA: 48°10'34" N, 65°59'18" W The day breaks, (Le jour craque) when the sun caresses the horizon. You leave, you take to the sea. You walk down the stairs that smell like tar. You get to the bottom. It's not really a shortcut, but it doesn't matter. You pick up a sea shell (Barlicoco), pieces of polished glass: the blue pieces…the rarest, the green pieces…the most common., The wild tide (La mer est folle) looks like it's going to wash over you. It does. The sea crashes into you, all the time. And you surrender. All the time. In summer, sometimes it's daytime, sometimes it's nighttime (La nuit l'été le p'tit bois), the little wood behind the hospital has always seemed like a magical forest to you, that special little place where you eat Bunchberry fruit, where you scratch your knees with a smile. It's huge, yet small. A few streets down, you reach a haven of joy that looks like a white home gallery (Les galeries), between Oriole Street (Rue des Loriots) and Hummingbirds Street. Here the streets have bird names, which are like little houses in your head when you feel far away. You repeat them to yourself: Blackbirds Street, Eagles Street, Turstones Street, Starlings Street, Mallards Street, Chickadees Street. And it makes you feel good. You take the promenade and you reach the seagull statue (Le Goéland). The pink stone contrasts with the ubiquitous blue of the landscape. The seagull has his own statue, majestic creature that he is. He's sort of the king, anyway. You go back up by Jays Street to reconnect with a part of yourself, from when you were both little and big. The time when you were in between. You reach the spot where you used to play wall tennis (Balle au mur), but it isn't really there anymore. All that remains is the taste of the grape bubble gum that was passed from mouth to mouth that time you played kiss and chase. Yeah, that's still there. You go back down Goldfinchs Street, and that's where you feel it. That space that's growing farther and farther away from you, that isn't quite the same, that isn't entirely your home anymore. Faces you have forgotten, the distance of time, and the cruelty of geography. It sweeps you away. The torrent (Le torrent). It rolls over your body like a massive, endless salty wave. And you are aware of a notion that hadn't been clearly formed in your head until now. You put the words together, in a regular order, and you quietly say them to yourself: you don't have a home here anymore. And you realize the queen of the house gallery is no longer in her home. Dolo is gone. And you cry in the green steps of her front balcony. You hear her speaking softly to you: "Viviane, the greater the silence, the more I can hear you" (Plus le silence est grand, plus je t'entends). The wave subsides as best it can. You go back. You take Route 132 and turn left to head into what looks like mountains, but it is in fact just a big curve. Childhood (Le tendre (route Droken)) is right there, on top of the hill. But the trees have grown over the three little garages. Your eyes search for familiar traces, but all you can see is that nature was left to its own devices here. Nature, in all its slowness, forcing you to admit defeat. The wind shifts. The sky turns black. The sea swells. You're no stranger to this ominous scene. You know what's rumbling up above. There's going to be Some Squall. You thought you could do it in time, but the sky pours down on you. The smell is a mixture of rain, lilies and white apples. And you feel less alone. But you weren't in the first place. It's time to return. To retrace the path in the opposite direction. To pull yourself away like you did the other times. But this time, you know that what you are leaving behind that green sign is a precious ingredient of yourself. You understand that it's her who lives inside you. That she will always be your home. Maria. And you know this: if one day you return, the birds will make a path for you (Si un jour tu reviens, les oiseaux te feront un passage). |
Solo music
Films, TV series
Mentana Music on pictures composer
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Biography Since graduating from the École supérieure de théâtre musical in Montreal, Viviane Audet has enjoyed a brilliant and prolific career in the arts. Formerly a theatre, television, and film actress, she now focuses primarily on composing music. Thus, over the past decade, Viviane has worked on more than 25 original soundtracks for major film, television, theatre, and dance productions. She has scored a number of feature films, including Camion (winner of the Jutra award for best original score in 2013), Les rois Mongols (nominated for best original score at the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards), Arsenault et fils, Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles, and La petite et le vieux. Viviane also composed the music for the documentary 50-50 (winner of the Gémeau award for best original score in 2019) and for the television series Le monde de Gabrielle Roy (nominated for best original score at the 2024 Gémeaux awards). Her work on the documentary about the Polytechnique tragedy deeply affected her (it also led to a nomination for best documentary score at the Gémeaux awards in 2020). The experience inspired Viviane to honour her classical piano background and create the solo album Les filles montagnes (nominated for best instrumental album at the 2021 ADISQ awards), a neoclassical journey of profound artistic sensibility. A multidisciplinary artist, Viviane also continues to embrace her parallel career as a singer-songwriter, both within folk band Mentana and as a solo act. After releasing her first two albums of original songs, Le long jeu and Le couloir des ouragans, she followed up in June 2023 with Les nuits avancent comme des camions blindés sur les filles. Exploring the vast and precious theme of sisterhood, among other subjects, the album and its supporting music videos received many nominations, including one at the 2024 Gala ADISQ and three at the 2023 GAMIQ awards. This recognition is further proof of Viviane Audet's importance in the artistic and cultural landscape. Le piano et le torrent, an enthralling new piano opus, will be unveiled in early 2025. |
Honors List of awards and nominations that Viviane Audet has collected throughout her career. 2024
2021
2020
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Contacts
Label: LABE • Maryse Dubé • 514 702-7674 • md@letartistsbe.com
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