" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

"Go, go, go! ... Go! go! ..."
John Lee Hooker"

 

14/02/2015

The Stryge & an official launch


Last year, during the windy & cold morning of the 22th of march 2014, the Stryge had been  part of the official launch of "The Worried Ones" first CD-box "Live at 64".
This official ceremony happened up in the north tower of Notre Dame de Paris and
mid-drown in the noisy sounds of the city, we could perceive a shy scream of satisfaction from the Stryge herself, who probably felt honoured to be part of the worried ones!
For obscure security reasons, no-ones, apart of the main actors, were invited for this event.



11/02/2015

That morning thing

 "That Morning Thing"  - Live @ The Kitchen, 2011

A 1967's work by Robert Ashley
A mixed-media opera for five principal voices, eight dancers, women's chorus and tape.
Director: Fast Forward
Sound processing and mixing: Tom Hamilton
Lighting design: David Moodey
Curated by Mark Beasley

  

That Morning Thing's complete version online  here on Vimeo

 
 
 
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07/02/2015

5266 bouchons


Complète collection des bouchons abimés ramassés sur la plage à Aglou au Maroc de 2012 à 2014, mis en musique par Frédéric Le Junter.

Complete collection of damaged caps picked up on the beach in Aglou in Morocco from 2012 to 2014, set to music by Frédéric Le Junter.


05/02/2015

13 solo strings


The strings' music of Witold Lutoslawski is still dynamic, eloquent and opened to musical questions that the 20th century suggested.

Here are the astonishing "Preludes and Fugue for 13 Solo Strings"  (composed in 1972)
played by the Warsaw National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Witold Lutoslawski himself
recorded at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1973



& a conversation in between Witold Lutoslawski and Krzysztof Zanussi, coproduction of the BBC : HERE