beyond the coda
20/04/2018
14/04/2018
Omaggio a Joyce
"Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" is an amazing composition by Luciano Berio, using tape and the voice of Cathy Berberian, his wife, the intense and unique contemporary avant-garde music vocalist. Words are issued from chapter XI "Les Sirènes" of "Ulysses", the James Joyce's famous novel. As an electroacoustic composition, the piece uses the possibilities of combining phonemes and the meaning of sounds that Joyce used in his text.
A first version, titled "Omaggio a Joyce. Documenti sulla qualità onomatopeica del linguaggio poetico" was for a radio documentary and was build at "Institute of Musical Phonology", in Milan, Italy. Initially conceived for four audio channels, this version was finaly recorded in stereo in 1958 under the title "Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" and published on a Turnabout' LP. In 1995, it was digitally restored as the definitive version.
"... I tried to interpret musically a reading of Joyce’s text, developing the
polyphonic intent that characterizes the eleventh chapter of Ulysses
(entitled “Sirens” and dedicated to music), whose narrative technique
was suggested to the author by a common procedure of polyphonic music:
the fuga per canonem..."
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio & Cathy Berberian
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"... par les moyens électroniques, le compositeur multiplie les bribes-mots, décompose et recompose les énoncés continus, les déforme (jusqu'à l'abstraction totale, fouillis de gazouillis et pépiements, souffles), en les manipulant selon des critères d'organisation différents de l'écriture du texte (par essence contraint par la nécessaire signifiance), en variant les vitesses, les durées et les bandes de fréquences..."
09/04/2018
Cecil Taylor in rehearsal
As a tribute to the great Cecil Taylor who flied away a few days ago,
just look at the amazing movie directed by Gérard Patris around his work in 1965/66
in the famous serie "Les Grandes Répétitions"
"To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra"
Cecil Taylor
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/cecil_taylor_204252
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/cecil_taylor_204252
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other links for "Grandes Répétitions"
with Karlheinz Stockhausen here
& with Hermann Scherchen here
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05/04/2018
In a wandering world
est le titre de l'exposition et du film présentés dans la galerie "L'Autoportrait" à Marseille en 2017 par l'artiste Joséphine de Saint Seine.
Un monde de nuages flottants dans l'air, incluant deux nuages de verre soufflé faisant directement partie de l'installation ayant généré le film éponyme.
"Particles in a wandering world" is
the title of the exhibition and the film showed in the Marseille's art-gallery
"L'Autoportrait" in 2017 by the french artist Joséphine de Saint
Seine.
A world composed by floating clouds in the air, including two of them carved in blown glass, part of the installation which generated the movie.
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Film : Josephine de Saint Seine
Shooting : Gary Hurst
Editing : Alban Barré
Editing : Alban Barré
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02/04/2018
Sahba Aminikia
"Shetàbàn", a piece for viola solo played by Hannah Nicholas.
Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer born in Tehran in 1981.
Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer born in Tehran in 1981.
Trained in music by Persian pianists as Safa Shahidi and Gagik Babayan, in Russia at the St. Petersburg Stat Conservatory by Boris Ivanov Tishchenko, and in England by Sir Michael Tippett, he is now living in California.
"Life in Tehran taught me to appreciate
hardship and beauty at the same time, and this is something that, due to
heavy media propaganda, is mainly obscured in Western minds. I was
brought up with the poetry of Hafiz, Rumi, and Saadi, and with Persian
classical music, but was also largely exposed to the music of Pink
Floyd, Beatles, Queen, and various jazz musicians. This conflict between
the morals of a theocracy and Western cultural imports also exists in
my mind, and I see it as a life process towards finding a common ground
for communication and dialogue in my music." Sahba Aminikia
He wrote numerous orchestral, vocal and solo pieces performed all around the world, with famous orchestras and musicians.
He has been commissioned by theater companies, contemporary classical ensembles, film scores, Persian traditional music groups as well as jazz bands including Kronos Quartet, Symphony Parnassus, Mobius Trio, San Francisco Conservatory of New Music Ensemble and many others.
interview here
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Recently in 2017 he was invited as artist-in-residence at Kronos Festival.
"Tar o pood" with the Kronos Quartet
29/03/2018
Cactus: 33 tours
Les éditions Cactus produisent et diffusent depuis 33 ans
nombre d'objets, disques, livres avec des artistes actifs
dans de nombreux domaines de la production audiovisuelle.
The Cactus editions , now called "La Manufacture des Cactées",
have been producing and broadcasting for 33 years
numerous objects, discs, books
with active artists in many areas of audiovisual production.
The Cactus editions , now called "La Manufacture des Cactées",
have been producing and broadcasting for 33 years
numerous objects, discs, books
with active artists in many areas of audiovisual production.
Maintenant, appelée "la Manufacture des Cactées", les activistes "Cactus" bidouillent toujours autour de la notion d’hybridité,
dans les domaines de la production éditoriale audiovisuelle, explorant différents champs tels que ceux de la littérature, de
la poésie, de la bande-dessinée, de la musique, de la performance, des
arts plastiques et du cinéma, sans jamais y être précisément, éprouvant
bien avant l’heure les liens entre musique et arts plastiques, ainsi que
la pratique de « la transversalité » chère à notre actuelle période
néo-académique.
Pour fêter cet anniversaire,
la Manufacture des Cactées nous livrent de nombreuses archives, notamment sonores.
Un remix réalisé par le trio audiovisuel METAFONIK
nous permet d'entendre ou ré-entendre
les différents styles et vibrations des fidèles artistes publiés
depuis l'origine de ce label, localisé en Normandie.
Parmi lesquels
François Banholzer, Pierre Bastien, Rémy Carré, Déficit Des Années Antérieures,
Deux Pingouins, Jean C. Dussin & les Kristoff K. Roll,
le poète Christophe Tarkos,
El Tiger Comics Group,
le Théâtre des Opérations & Annabelle Cocollos & Vincent Julliard.
François Banholzer, Pierre Bastien, Rémy Carré, Déficit Des Années Antérieures,
Deux Pingouins, Jean C. Dussin & les Kristoff K. Roll,
le poète Christophe Tarkos,
El Tiger Comics Group,
le Théâtre des Opérations & Annabelle Cocollos & Vincent Julliard.
A METAFONIK remix of different styles and vibes of faithful artists
published since the origin of this label located in Normandy, France.
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25/03/2018
Oiseaux-Tempête & G.W. Sok

Oiseaux-Tempête is a french band formed by Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul who have choose this name which means a call from the sea.
Their project "Utopiya" is a tribute to Sicilia and Turkéy, in continuity after Greece with their first opus in 2012.
Beside their work, the impressive poetry of G.W.Sok, dutch poet and well-known vocalist of the punk-rock band The Ex for quite 30 years.
G.W.Sok now collaborates from 2010 with different bands including Cannibales et Vahinées as the italian experimental trio ZU.
He published a recommended book, "Bricks and Valentines", full of his lyrics for years.
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