Longue Durée (2017) for voice, accordion, and electronics [6:30] Christopher Trapani · Longue Durée Longue Durée is inspired by the writings of the historian Fernand Braudel. The text of the work is made up of phrases borrowed from his essays, and from the first chapter of Memory and the Mediterranean titled “Seeing the Sea.” Work began with recording sessions at Grame in Lyon, where a corpus of samples was created, then enhanced by the addition of various distorted versions of these samples. The main technical challenge of the piece involves the interaction between a live signal and this bank of samples, with the electronics imitating trajectories of color and intentisty played on stage. Longue Durée was commissioned by the Festival Musiques Démesurées and premiered in Clermont-Ferrand on November 3, 2017 by Angèle Chemin (voice) and Vincent Lherment (accordion). Electronics were realized at Grame with Max Bruckert, RIM.