et aussi, à ne pas manquer, sur "Beyond the coda", "Again the sunset", une autre performance (2022) de Yann Leguay et de l'artiste Islandaise Inga Huld Hákonardóttir
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The famous British pianist John Tilbury was invited in 2009 for the french exhibition "The freedom of the listening" at CAC de Brétigny sur Orge in 2009 (directed at that time by Pierre Bal-Blanc). The purpose of the exhibition, curated by Dean Inkster, Lore Gablier and myself, retraced the artistic career of the English composer Cornelius Cardew who died tagically in 1981 at the age of 45.
For this occasion, John Tilbury, whose close friendship with Cardew dates from the early 1960, played different piano pieces for prepared pinao including the third of the Cardew's "February Pieces for Piano". Here is an extract of the piano recital-talk he performed. The complete performance of this lecture is archived here .
"February Pieces for Piano - N°3" by John Tilbury - 17th may 2009
more infos in the Cardew's biography by John Tilbury"a life unfinished"
more on Cornelius Cardew on "beyond the coda" here
Pictures by Steeve Beckouet - courtesy CAC Brétigny 2009
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With words spoken in Arabic, Armenian, and English, Mary Kouyoumdjian's "2 Suitcases" is in dedication to her parents' immigration story, as they settled in San Francisco from the Lebanese Civil War with only their 1 year old son and two suitcases. The piece was commissioned by the Los Angeles New Music Ensemble and later arranged for Eighth Blackbird.
& to listen to "Silent Cranes" with the Kronos Quartet
"Silent Cranes" is inspired by the Armenian folk song “Groung (Crane)” in which the singer calls out to the migratory bird, begging for word from their homeland, only to have the crane respond with silence and fly away. Composed in memory of the Armenian Genocide.
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In the early 2000s, Tokyo's SuperDeluxe was a meeting point for many experimental musicians, both international and Japanese. This duo sprung from a live collaboration at the venue in 2006, where Machida was experimenting with processed steel pan and Lyall was largely performing using a tabletop guitar setup with a range of electronics.
"Premeditation" is Cal Lyall : 5-string banjo
& Yoshio Machida : steelpans, gamelan, metal slit drums
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Nyokabi Kariũki, born in 1998, is a Kenyan composer and performer based between New York,
Maryland and
Nairobi. Her sonic imagination is ever-evolving, with compositions ranging from
classical contemporary to choral music, film, experimental pop; and further includes explorations into
sound art, electronics, and (East) African musical traditions.
"This record "Premeditation" was written after an extended period of illness (long COVID) in 2021, reflecting on how being sick suddenly gave an urgency to my understanding of the body I live in...To want to share a painful story is to also find curious ways to protect yourself as you do so: looking towards methali (Swahili proverbs) to nourish the lyrics; asking text-to-speech to say phrases you struggle to repeat; recording stream-of-consciousness voice notes so that you don’t have to sit long in thoughts; and to find, in sound — from field recordings, to dreamy improvisations by musical friends — a way to express visceral feelings and noisy thoughts." NK words
with
Nyokabi Kariuki - voices & clarinet
Yaz Lancaster - violin & voice
Michael Denis Ó Callaghan - trumpet
Chris O’Leary - drums
Ian Fales - double bass
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En avril 1995, j'ai eu le plaisir d'enregistrer, tout au long du circuit Bugatti (construit en 1966), l'édition des "24 heures du Mans Motos", formidable course d'endurance de grands sportifs. Le circuit, d'une longueur de 4,430 kms, consiste entre autres en une ligne droite de 674m ainsi que de 14 virages. Vrombissements, accélérations et débrayages, crissements de pneus, petits dérapages, bureau de comptage et du jury, ambiances nocturnes de stands, changements de pneus ...
Nous assistions alors à une bagarre incroyable puisque les cinq grandes marques ont été en tête tour à tour. Sur 57 motos au départ, seules 28 ont franchi la ligne d'arrivée. Les chutes et les casses ont éliminé les Kawasaki et les Ducati.
sont arrivés sur le Podium les équipages suivants:
1 Vieira / Nicotte / Morrison (Honda) 764 tours - 3 384kms - 141,1 km/h
2 Moineau / Lavieille / Gomez (Suzuki)
3 Morillas / Deletang / Bonoriz (Yamaha)
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Semi-improvised performance of Ed Williams' Decomposition of the Siciliana from J S Bach's Sonata IV - BWV 1017. With Anouck Genthon (violin) & Ed Williams (harpsichord) during the Attacca festival, Hochschule für Musik Basel, Ackermannshof, in June 2023.
The original duet’s part of the Largo has been discarded and the continuo part allowed to flourish to become a different kind of duet, involving the original instrumental pair of harpsichord and violin. Acting like enzymes breaking down organic matter, the two performers collaboratively weave an improvised tissue of timbres, intervals and silences that emerge from the diffraction, repetition and savoring of the original score’s notes. This calls to mind the image of string figures described by Isabelle Stengers: “...but knowing that what you take has been held out entails a particular thinking “in-between”... with the demand that you not proceed with ‘mechanical confidence’... two pairs of hands are needed, and in each successive step, one is ‘passive’, offering the result of its previous operation, a string entanglement, for the other to operate...” (Stengers, 2011).
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La partie du duo original du Largo est abandonnée et la partie de continuo peut s’épanouir pour devenir un autre type de duo en soi, impliquant le duo instrumental original du clavecin et du violon. Agissant comme des enzymes décomposant la matière organique, les deux interprètes tissent en collaboration un canevas improvisé de timbres, d’intervalles et de silences qui émergent de la diffraction, de la répétition et de la dégustation des notes de la partition originale. Cela rappelle l’image des figures de cordes décrites par Isabelle Stengers : " ... mais savoir que ce que vous prenez a été tendu implique une réflexion particulière « entre »... avec l’exigence de ne pas procéder avec une « confiance mécanique »... deux paires de mains sont nécessaires, et à chaque étape successive, l’une est « passive », offrant le résultat de son opération précédente, un enchevêtrement de cordes, pour que l’autre opère... " (Stengers, 2011).
On "Beyond the Coda", another work of Ed Williams: "decomposition study" with an organ,
and another decomposition: "Soave Dolc'Ardore" for a string quartet
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