{"id":974,"date":"2021-06-09T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fortneranderson.com\/?page_id=974"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:58:53","slug":"le-songe-dartisan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fortneranderson.com\/?page_id=974","title":{"rendered":"Le Songe d’artisan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Le<\/a>LE SONGE D\u2019ARTISAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c9couter Le Songe d’artisan<\/em> ici.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fortner Anderson (po\u00e8te et concepteur)
\nAlexandre St-Onge (sons)
\nGenevieve Letarte (voix)
\nJames Schidlowsky (programmeur)<\/p>\n

Le Songe d\u2019artisan est une machine po\u00e8tique-sonore qui produit une vaste nombre de sonnets classiques en fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n

Fortner Anderson est le po\u00e8te derri\u00e8re le projet. Alexandre St-Onge a cr\u00e9\u00e9 l\u2019environment sonore, et Genevi\u00e8ve Letarte a donn\u00e9 sa voix \u00e0 la machine, et James Schidlowsky a travaill\u00e9 pour reli\u00e9 le tout ensemble.<\/p>\n

Une particularit\u00e9 du projet, les sonnets cr\u00e9\u00e9 par la machine sont enti\u00e8rement cr\u00e9\u00e9s \u00e0 partir de citations tir\u00e9es du corpus de la po\u00e9sie qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise moderne et contemporaine.<\/p>\n

Bien que chaque po\u00e8me cr\u00e9\u00e9 par la machine soit original, chacun \u00e9pouse la structure syntaxique et le sch\u00e9ma de rimes du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre po\u00e8me d\u2019\u00c9mile Nelligan, \u00ab R\u00eave d\u2019Artiste \u00bb. <\/p>\n

La carri\u00e8re de po\u00e8te de Nelligan n\u2019ait dur\u00e9 que trois ans, de sa premi\u00e8re \u0153uvre publi\u00e9e en 1896 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de dix-sept ans jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son hospitalisation en 1899 dans un \u00e9tablissement psychiatrique, mais il est consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l\u2019un des plus grands po\u00e8tes du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

Afin de reproduire le plus fid\u00e8lement possible la forme du po\u00e8me de Nelligan, Fortner Anderson a effectu\u00e9 une recherche au sein d\u2019une grande s\u00e9lection de po\u00e9sie qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise moderne et contemporaine afin de trouver un \u00e9quivalent syntaxique pour chacun des 28 h\u00e9mistiches pr\u00e9sents dans le texte de Nelligan. <\/p>\n

Le nombre de po\u00e8mes que la machine pourrait possiblement produire est vaste, soit 375 quintillions. Il faudrait environ 712,928 trillions d\u2019ann\u00e9es pour que la machine g\u00e9n\u00e8re toutes les combinaisons possibles. \u00c0 titre de comparaison, des estimations r\u00e9centes \u00e9valuent l\u2019\u00e2ge de l\u2019univers \u00e0 seulement 13,7 milliards d’ann\u00e9es.<\/p>\n

Chaque r\u00e9citation de po\u00e8me est accompagn\u00e9e d\u2019un fond sonore cr\u00e9\u00e9 par Alexandre St-Onge. De plus, pour chacune des citations enregistr\u00e9es, Alexandre St-Onge a cr\u00e9\u00e9 une r\u00e9interpr\u00e9tation sonore. Ces r\u00e9interpr\u00e9tations abstraites des lectures sont reli\u00e9es et jou\u00e9es ensemble une fois que la r\u00e9citation de chaque po\u00e8me est termin\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

Voir un court vid\u00e9o d\u00e9scriptif de l’installation ici.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFortner Anderson (poet and conception)
\nAlexandre St-Onge (sound environment)
\nGenevieve Letarte (voice)
\nJames Schidlowsky (software programmer)<\/p>\n

Listen to Le Songe d’artisan<\/em> here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Le Songe d’artisan is a poetic-sound machine that produces a vast number of classical sonnets in French.<\/p>\n

Fortner Anderson is the poet behind the project. Alexandre St-Onge created the sound environment, Genevi\u00e8ve Letarte gave her voice to the machine, and James Schidlowsky worked to tie it all together.<\/p>\n

A particularity of the project, the sonnets created by the machine are entirely created from quotations taken from the corpus of modern and contemporary Quebec poetry.<\/p>\n

Although each poem created by the machine is original, each follows the syntactical structure and rhyme scheme of \u00c9mile Nelligan’s famous poem, “R\u00eave d’Artiste”.<\/p>\n

Nelligan’s career as a poet lasted only three years, from his first published work in 1896 at the age of seventeen until his hospitalization in 1899 in a mental institution, nonetheless he is considered one of of Quebec’s greatest poets.<\/p>\n

In order to reproduce the form of Nelligan’s poem as faithfully as possible, Fortner Anderson searched through a large selection of modern and contemporary Quebec poetry in order to find a syntactic equivalent for each of the 28 hemistiches present in Nelligan’s text. <\/p>\n

The number of poems the machine can possibly produce is vast — 375 quintillion. It would take about 712.928 trillion years for the machine to generate all the possible combinations. For comparison, recent estimates put the age of the universe at just 13.7 billion years.<\/p>\n

Each poem recitation is accompanied by music created by Alexandre St-Onge. For each of the recorded citations, Alexandre St-Onge created a sound reinterpretation. These abstract reinterpretations of the recordings are linked and presented after each recitation of each poem.<\/p>\n

See a short descriptive video of the installation (in French) here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Les sources des citations \/ The source of the citations <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ang\u00e9line Neveu, \u00c2me sauvage (\u00c9crits des Forges, Trois-Rivi\u00e9res, 2004)
\nMartine Audet, Des voix stridentes ou rompues (\u00c9ditions du Noiro\u00eet, Montr\u00e9al, 2013)
\nJos\u00e9 Acquelin, L\u2019infini est moins triste que l\u2019\u00e9ternit\u00e9 (Les Herbes rouges, Montr\u00e9al, 2009)
\nNicole Brossard, \u00c0 tout regard (Biblioth\u00e8que qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise, Montr\u00e9al, 1989)
\nDenise Boucher, Paris Polaro\u00efd (l\u2019Hexagone, Montr\u00e9al, 1990)
\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne Dorion, Comme r\u00e9sonne la vie (\u00c9ditions Bruno Doucy, Paris, 2018)
\nFernand Durepos, De par les rues boh\u00e9mien (\u00c9crits des Forges, Ottawa, 1995)
\nFran\u00e7ois Charron, Ce qui nous abandonne (Les Herbes rouges, Outremont, 2006)
\nMarie-Claire Blais, Oeuvre po\u00e9tique 1957-1996 (\u00c9ditions du Bor\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, 1997)
\nAnne H\u00e9bert, Oeuvre po\u00e9tique 1950-1990 (Bor\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, 1993)
\nPatrice Desbiens, En temps et lieux (L’Oie de Cravan, Montr\u00e9al, 2017)
\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne Monette, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se pour joie et orchestre (Bor\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, 2008)
\nDenis Vanier, L\u2019’Urine des for\u00eats (Les Herbes rouges, Montr\u00e9al, 1999)
\nG\u00e9rald Godin, Soirs sans atout (\u00c9crits des Forges, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, 1986)
\nRen\u00e9 Lapierre, Pour les d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9s seulement (Les Herbes rouges, Montr\u00e9al, 2012)
\n\u00c9lise Turcotte, piano m\u00e9loncolique (\u00c9ditions du Noro\u00eet, Montr\u00e9al, 2005)
\nCarole David, Terroristes d\u2019’amour suivi de L\u2019’endroit o\u00f9 se trouve ton \u00e2me (Les Herbes Rouges, Montr\u00e9al, 1991, 2003)
\nSuzanne Jacob, Amour, que veux-tu faire? (Bor\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, 2011)
\nGaston Miron, L’homme rapaill\u00e9, (Les Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Montr\u00e9al, 1970)
\nClaude P\u00e9loquin, L\u2019’autopsie merveilleuse (Beauchemin, Montr\u00e9al,1979)
\nJean-Paul Daoust, 111, Wooster Street (VLB \u00c9diteur, Montr\u00e9al, 1996)
\nGilles Cyr, Huit sorties (L\u2019Hexagone, Montr\u00e9al, 2012)
\nJean-Simon DesRochers, Les animaux ventriloques (Les Herbes rouges, Montr\u00e9al, 2019)
\nLouise Dupr\u00e9, Plus haut que les flammes (\u00c9ditions du Noro\u00eet, Montr\u00e9al, 2010)
\nJacques Godbout, Souvenirs Shop (L\u2019Hexagone, Montr\u00e9al, 1984)
\nJacques Lanct\u00f4t, Rupture de ban (VLB, Montr\u00e9al-Nord, 1979)
\nGenevieve Letarte, Tout bas tr\u00e8s fort (\u00c9crits des Forges, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, 2004)
\nLouise Warren, Une collection de lumi\u00e8res (Typo, Montr\u00e9al, 2005)
\nMarcel Labine, le tombeau o\u00f9 nous courons (Les Herbes rouges, Montr\u00e9al, 2012)
\nGilles Vigneault, \u00c9traves (\u00c9ditions de L\u2019ARC, Sillery, 1959)
\nMadeleine Gagnon, \u00c0 l\u2019ombre des mots Po\u00e8mes 1964-2006 (\u00c9ditions de l\u2019Hexagone, Qu\u00e9bec, 2007)
\nSaint-Denys-Garneau,Po\u00e9sies compl\u00e8tes (Fides, Montr\u00e9al, 1949)
\nDenis Vanier, Cette langue que nul ne parle (VLB \u00c9diteur, Montr\u00e9al, 1985)
\nClaude Beausoleil, Myst\u00e8re Wilde (\u00c9crits des Forges, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, 2014)
\nLouise Desjardins, La 2e avenue ( \u00c8ditions du Noro\u00eet, St-Lambert,1990)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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