Hitchcock Études

Nicole Lizée

Hitchcock Études has been performed in Brooklyn, Huddersfield and Quebec City…

The premise for Hitchcock Études is centered around my ongoing preoccupation with the fallibility of media. Technology has the potential to fail and can fail in spectacular ways, creating fascinating sounds and visuals. How to capture and replicate those beautiful mistakes?

All of the soundtrack material and visuals are from middle period Hitchcock films: deconstructed, spliced and otherwise damaged, resulting in layers of disjunct, erratic rhythmic material, twisted melodic lines and harmonies.

The living performers interact with the lost, forgotten or even dead icons, simultaneously breathing new life and emotion into the characters while bending, stretching, and hacking the original context, function and storyline. There is something sinister and terrifying when the performers infiltrate the scene and engage with the (often psychotic) character; at once becoming part of the mise-en-scène, while simultaneously guiding it into a new direction.

This work was selected by the International Society for Contemporary Music to be featured at the 2014 World Music Days in Wroclaw, Poland.

Premiere

  • November 26, 2014, hcmf// 2014: 17. Quatuor Bozzini, St Paul’s Hall — University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield (England, UK)

Hitchcock Études

  • Composer(s): Nicole Lizée
  • Year of composition: 2014
  • Duration: 20:00
  • Instrumentation: amplified string quartet, toy pianos, fixed medium and video
Concerts
26 Nove 2014
5:00 pm
ArnoldLizéeSabat
In person
Huddersfield (England, UK)
29 Janu 2015
8:00 pm
ArnoldBaklaLangLizéeSieglerTenneyTopel
In person
Brooklyn (New York, USA)
26 Apri 2019
8:00 pm
KagelLizéeOesterleTan
In person
Quebec City (Québec)