leitmotiv

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Un thème musical souvent dramatique qui se répète... Voilà la définition qui exprimait un sens aux compositions de Frédéric Truong. C'est en 1991 qu'il donnait ce nom à sa démarche musicale. Les compositions sont «néo-classiques» avec parfois, des sonorités orientales."16. Again about the music, your compositions are often very short, usually just few minutes. Did you ever think about a project like a "suite", a longer piece with different elements but with a basilar "leitmotiv" as guide? I like short tracks that express a direct feeling of impression. It is part of my personality. I don't know if I can compose longer tracks, to compare this with cinema, I will be more in short cuts and long films. I need to express a multitude of things and depending of the day I am playing, depending on what I live, what happened around me, my mind is always different, my way of playing is different and I really don't know if I can have continuity in an unique project.17. Parc Sainte-Marie is clearly a walk (for some listeners it could be a travel) through the park. On retrospective Suspended Moment some concepts are expressed concerning old albums. Also the music seems to be in according to these themes, I refer particularly to the martial rhythms of Voyageurs En Parallele, that results inspired by refusal of war conflicts. Could you explain better these theme associations? Yes for this record, and also for the track called "L'Euphorie" in Rêves, I am using military rhythms, to express the different conflicts in the world, to express my fear of the war (ie... The great Dictator and Modern times from Charlie Chaplin), a conflict in Sarajevo was happening at that time. The parallel trip is a journey without frontier; "Hier oder anderwo" was representing the fall of the Berlin wall. I can see so many images in my head at the time of the album that I really like and I prefer to talk about the other instead of myself.18. What does the German text inside Voyageurs En Parallele booklet mean? And the Japanese (I guess...) kanji on Suspended Moment CD? I try to anticipate your questions - this text means " here or somewhere else" means distress, behind this frontier, there is a non-openness mind. I was talking about destruction, instead of building things, I was talking about Sarajevo, the pain of the people, children and also that nobody was interested to send help over there, because there was no oil. This is what I was feeling. A pessimist vision, a general disgust. The Japanese text on "suspended moment" is simply a translation from the title "moment suspendus". And a certain interpretation of Leitmotiv in a dramatic musical theme as Leitmotiv can't really be translated in Japanese.19. Your music could be fine as soundtrack. Some time ago you were contacted for Hong Kong spot. How did it end? Do you have and/or want other work like this? Two years again, my editor, Gérard Nguyen from the publishing house "Le soleil et l'acier" called me because Warner Chapell Hong Kong wished for an ad, to use "Le secret". I think that someone from the advertising agency who created the film (for fibre channel) must have found at Monitor the cd "une saison sans pluie". A complete hazard which contribute to motivate me. To produce, later on "la Révérence", I discover only a few time again, that "La marche des troubadours" and "la berceuse pour Sophie" were used at the national French radio for some of the programs.20. You are quite outside music business, I mean of course indie music business. Do you like some artists of this scene? And mainstream music? In an old interview, I was talking about a few band I was listening to before. Today, I must admit that I don't know what is going on in the actual musical context. I still like Tuxedomoon, Minimal Compact, And also the trees, even if today I am less listening to their music, this is part of my past. Today, I am listening to French singers, original soundtrack like the one from the movie "in the mood for love". Music from Pascal Comélade, classical from Satie, Schubert and Michael Nyman.21. Having an album inspired by movies, it results obvious the question: do you like cinema? Which are your favourite movies / directors? I love cinema, Truffaut's film (The bride was in black (la Marié était en noir) - Chabrol, Almodovar (Todos mi madre), Chaplin - I am often going to a small cinema in my quarter, a little place where you can still see some "authors films" or watch very old movies - Jacques Tati - or smaller film in their original version. The titles of my tracks are closely related to the images, movies, this is the cerebral and visual aspect of Leitmotiv....extract from the interview of Frederic Truong in 2002 on http://www.lieunoir.com/leitmotiv/