Sous l’écorce des pierres — promenade has been performed in Beijing, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Kraków, Marseille, Montpellier, Montréal, Prague, Rome, São Paulo, Seoul and Tallinn…

To Folkmar Hein

Most of the sounds heard here were given to me by Folkmar Hein, who commissioned this work. These sounds, which he recorded himself, can be construed as having no specific meaning. Would it be possible to integrate them into a larger project aimed at evoking the very long forest walks Hein is regularly taking around Berlin? He once told me that, after a few hours of strolling, your perception of time gradually becomes altered. I started imagining that the path to that mental state could trigger a reverie hidden under the bark of stones.

— Gilles Gobeil [English translation: François Couture, xii-23]

Sous l’écorce des pierres — promenade [Under the Bark of Stones — A Stroll] was started in 2016 at the composer’s studio and completed in 2017 at the Studio du Québec in New York (USA). It was premiered on August 12, 2017 at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM)’s ZKM_Kubus in Karlsruhe (Germany). The work was commissioned by Folkmar Hein. Thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) for its support. Sous l’écorce des pierres — promenade was awarded an Honorable Mention at the 2017 CIME Awards and the 2017 international electroacoustic music competition Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic).