Farewells is a mixed music piece in the form of a requiem which was composed for my uncle’s funeral in February 2018. The textual fragments are from Fernando Pessoa, all coming from his first English Sonnet. They tell the original incommunicability of being and the shortfalls of language. Thus it is through contemplation and reverence that the spontaneous rebellion of humans towards mysteries and death might found its sublimation. Farewells is a piece of music which takes part of that ritual, the one that achieves the linking of presence to existence, of life to death.
The cantus firmus are issued from Fuse (2007) and the electroacoustic choral is issued from the 2d movement of Le Surgissement du Réel (2018).
with Sara Notarnicola & Sirana Szterynski, voices.
click on the picture to listen
Farewells (2018) fixed media
A Date With Wind is a polygraphic recital for saxophone(s) & live-computer which was born after a fruitful premiere collaboration with Joël. The program is more or less flexible according to the performance circumstances as given durational frames though it is uncompromisely featuring cinematic-like built and thought musics that we like and wish to share.
The concert might exhaustively present : Marta Gentiluci's Exp.doc...et juv. (?), Bernard Cavanna's Goutte d'Or Blues, Julien Vincenot's Silent_Data_Corrupt, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi's Spatio Intermisso and Nicolas Jacquot's Une Autre Nuit.
with : Joël Versavaud, saxophones & Nicolas Jacquot, laptop
picture by Mathieu Mangaretto / Le Bus Digital
A Date With Wind is a polygraphic recital for saxophone(s) & live-computer which was born after a fruitful premiere collaboration with Joël. The program is more or less flexible according to the performance circumstances as given durational frames though it is uncompromisely featuring cinematic-like built and thought musics that we like and wish to share.
The concert might exhaustively present : Marta Gentiluci's Exp.doc...et juv. (?), Bernard Cavanna's Goutte d'Or Blues, Julien Vincenot's Silent_Data_Corrupt, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi's Spatio Intermisso and Nicolas Jacquot's Une Autre Nuit.
with : Joël Versavaud, saxophones & Nicolas Jacquot, laptop
picture by Mathieu Mangaretto / Le Bus Digital
Écriture poétique
Farewells (2018) fixed media
MARDI 6 AVRIL 2021
Farewells (2018) fixed media requiem
Venus (2018) for solo viola
Farewells (2018) fixed media
Farewells (2018) fixed media
Venus (2018) for solo viola
Farewells is a mixed music piece in the form of a requiem which was composed for my uncle’s funeral in February 2018. The textual fragments are from Fernando Pessoa, all coming from his first English Sonnet. They tell the original incommunicability of being and the shortfalls of language. Thus it is through contemplation and reverence that the spontaneous rebellion of humans towards mysteries and death might found its sublimation. Farewells is a piece of music which takes part of that ritual, the one that achieves the linking of presence to existence, of life to death.
The cantus firmus are issued from Fuse (2007) and the electroacoustic choral is issued from the 2d movement of Le Surgissement du Réel (2018).
with Sara Notarnicola & Sirana Szterynski, voices.
click on the picture to listen
Double Trouble performance is based on a reduced reading of the eponym novel which I had been writting during a serendipitous night of July 2017. It is accompanied by a fixed arrangement of recent works plus a special feature of Monte Cazazza's song A Gringo Like Me. The full tracklist includes :
The Jazzercises - Node I (2019)
Interlude I
We're (In) The Text - midi mockup (2017)
The Jazzercises - Mode I (2018)
Choral XXI - Showcase Showdown (2019)
Interlude II
The Jazzercises - Node II (2019)
Interlude III
*Monte Cazazza / A Gringo Like Me, extract (2010)
The Jazzercises - Mode VI (2019)
it was premiered on November 23, 2019 @ 2biS clothes shop-gallery in Marseille during the opening of the group installation Tu t'Uses Beauté ?
Double Trouble performance is based on a reduced reading of the eponym novel which I had been writting during a serendipitous night of July 2017. It is accompanied by a fixed arrangement of recent works plus a special feature of Monte Cazazza's song A Gringo Like Me. The full tracklist includes :
The Jazzercises - Node I (2019)
Interlude I
We're (In) The Text - midi mockup (2017)
The Jazzercises - Mode I (2018)
Choral XXI - Showcase Showdown (2019)
Interlude II
The Jazzercises - Node II (2019)
Interlude III
*Monte Cazazza / A Gringo Like Me, extract (2010)
The Jazzercises - Mode VI (2019)
it was premiered on November 23, 2019 @ 2biS clothes shop-gallery in Marseille during the opening of the group installation Tu t'Uses Beauté ?
* Activité 57 p. 120 : "Lire un graphique", MANUEL EUROMATHS CE2
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Vocabulaire : les synonymes
Vocabulaire : les synonymes
THE SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWNS
/ des petits arrangements
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #1 : installation/braderie
création @Festival Horizon - Marseille, 11-12 mai 2019
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #2 : conférence/stéréodrame
création @Prisma International Meeting - Ircam, Paris, 10 juillet 2019
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #3 : newsletters n°7/appel à correspondance
à paraître en septembre 2019
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #4 : roadmovie/interview
en projet
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #5 : 24 Chorals/LoFi-portfolio
en projet
Les Showcase-Showdowns déclinent au sein d’un même projet plusieurs créations, plusieurs apparitions hétéroclites, tant dans leurs natures que dans leurs fonctions (promotionnelles, théoriques, spectaculaires, …). Dans ce sens le projet vient et prolonger et redéfinir l'approche formelle de la composition et de la conception de mes ouvrages en général.
Les Showcase-Showdowns représentent une actualisation autocritique et critique qui déborde l’autodérision pour atteindre les couches plus profondes d'une réflexion socio-esthétique : l’interaction (ou la non-interaction?) essentielle entre la pratique et la politique institutionnelle, entre l’énergie créatrice fondamentale et la pro-motion, de la bonne allure au désir de gloire au rien du tout.
Ce sont ici les limites du système TRANS — disciplines, genres, textes, médias, etc… qui sont interrogées à travers les rapports qu'elles induisent avec l’identité et la signature, la culture et l’artisanat, le logique et le transcendant. Les prototypes génériques qui vont se déclarer jouent ainsi volontairement avec l’absurde et la fantaisie. Du moins a priori … Le haut degré d’articulation et d’arrangement des dispositifs conçus avec l'artiste Axelle Terrier et élaborés avec la complicité des différents collaborateurs cherchera à retourner les singularités émises en vibrations admises. Par qui ? Par combien ? Quand les carottes sont cuites ?
THE SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWNS
/ of little generic arrangements
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #1 : installation/market
premiere @Festival Horizon - Marseille, May-12, 2019
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #2 : conference/stereodrama
premiere @Prisma International Meeting - Ircam, Paris, July-10, 2019
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #3 : newsletters n°7/call for #keywords
upcoming September 2019
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #4 : roadmovie/interview
in progress
SHOWCASE-SHOWDOWN #5 : 24 chorals/Lofi-portfolio
in progress
The Showcase-Showdowns bring several creations together, several heterogenous apparitions, within a unique project, in the sense that their natures and fonctions are quite varied (promotional, theoretical, spectacular, ...). The project comes both to extend and redefine my formal approach of composition and the overall conception of my work indeed.
The Showcase-Showdowns stand as a critical and self-critical updating which exceed any mockery to reach some deeper layers of socio-æsthetic reflexion : the essential interaction (or non-interaction?) between practice and institutional policy, between the making momentum and the pro-motion, from good speed to glory aspiration to not a thing.
Hereby, it is the limits of the system TRANS — disciplines, genres, texts, medias, etc... that are questionned through their possible links with artistic identity and signature, crafts and culture, logics and transcendence. The generic prototypes that show up intentionally drift in between absurd and fancy. At least in theory... The meticulous articulation and arrangement of the various apparatus conceived with Axelle Terrier and developped with different collaborators is to strive for transforming these emited singularities into admited vibrations. For who ? For how many ? When the chips are down ?
