“The question of concrete mimesis is taboo in music”

In October 2013, the Canadian composer Charles-Antoine Fréchette (Montreal, 1981) gave the World première of his quintet for cello, saxophone, piano, percussion, sound mixer and 12 microphones Toposition(s)#3 (2013) in Santiago de Compostela, in the concert’s series Música y arte. Correspondencias sonoras, played by the Galician contemporary music group Vertixe Sonora Ensemble [to read the review]. It was first Fréchette’s piece played in Spain, having a great success for its deep musicality, artistic transcendence and radical exploration of the space and its relations to nature. The routes from the early Fréchette’s works to his last compositions should be analysed in detail as one of the most interesting young composers in the North America’s scene. We talk about it in this interview, discovering his deep and intelligent ideas on his…