La "bande son" de Maurice Blackburn (1914-1988) pour le film "Jour après jour", tourné au Québec et réalisé par Clément Perron en 1962,est composée comme un long poème politique mêlant voix, musique concrète et collages sonores.
"On est allé chercher de tout, galopades de
chevaux, bruits de trains, sifflets, arbres s’écroulant, bruits de
machines" - Maurice Blackburn
Après avoir fêté ses 25 ans d'existence, GOL nous a honoré d'une belle performance sonore à la Maison Rouge.
Composée de Samon Takahashi, Jean Marcel Busson, Ravi Shardja et Frédéric Rebotier, cette formation à l'instrumentarium singulier nous délivre une musique libre de tous genres, dans la lignée d'ensembles comme Musica Elettronica Viva, AMM ou le Scratch Orchestra de Cornelius Cardew.
Ivan Martinez, american conceptual artist, describes the walks his father did virtualy in Jaruco, Cuba, for each of his birthdays. Following and drawing maps of his ancient walks in his city.
That sole conversation was then etched into a one-off vinyl record.
He describes the homes, the lots, the schools, the businesses, the
people, the food, the coffee, the parks, the prison, the cemetery, the
rumors, the entertainment, the politics, the divisions of such a small
town and what resides just outside of its boundaries.
Giovanni Battista Pergolèse (1710-1736) compose quelques mois avant sa mort de la tuberculose son célébre "Stabat Mater" qui lui avait été commandé par son mécène le duc de Maddaloni.
Le talentueux contre-ténor Philippe Jaroussky et la soprano hongroise Emöke Barath en donne ici une splendide version.
L'ensemble "Orfeo 55" est dirigé par la non moins talentueuse Nathalie Stutzmann.
End of the 40s, the eminent composer Christian Wolff became a close associate of John Cage and his artistic circle, which included Earle Brown, David Tudor and Morton Feldman.And in the 60s, close of Cornelius Cardew, he continued to experiment the idea of composition, as well to practice the improvisation.
One of his main subject was the idea of indeterminate music. If the outcome is uncertain, how do we know whether we are hearing a particular piece? How different can a piece
sound and still be that piece? His piece "Burdocks" - for one or more groups of 5 or more players - written in the 70s for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company is emblematic of his area of thought.
En hommage à notre ami Rémi Kolpa Kopoul, dit RKK, qui nous a quitté hier.
Cette excellente archive des débuts du tropicalisme au Brésil, pays qu'il aimait - et qui l'aimait - tant et dont il nous a fait, au fil des dernières décennies, découvrir les merveilles musicales. Journaliste, DJ, homme de radio (Radio Nova) et grand maître de la "sono mondiale", il nous a toujours fait entendre des merveilles et des raretés musicales des 5 continents, avec passion et générosité.
On the 21th of october1967 in Teatro Paramount (São Paulo- Brazil), the third final of the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira , being the real embodiment of the begining of the "Tropicalism".
A crazy night with lot of famous musicians, which started with a scandal by Sergio Ricardo who broke his guitar in front of the audience who disliked his song interpretation.
An amazing documentary with interviewes and excerpts of the show : Chico Buarque with the MPB 4, (don't miss a fabulous piece around 46' - where the audience had nothing to compete with the Beatles' one, at the same era) Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes ....
The movie is in Portuguese langage, no subtitles, but don't miss it.