Julio Cortázar a toujours entretenu un rapport intéressé et particulier avec la musique, et plus spécifiquement le jazz et, naturellement, le tango de son pays natal, l'Argentine. Ainsi dans les "Entretiens avec Omar Prego" en 1984, quelques semaines avant son décès.
Quelques notes à propos de certaines références de musique jazz et classique, de tango, de leur interprètes et (ou) créateurs, recensées dans le roman "Marelle"
"Szenario" is a piece for orchestra and tapecomposed by Mauricio Kagel in 1982.Commissioned by Swiss Television DRS, "Szenario" is a musical adaptationfor the film "Un chien andalou" by Luis Buñuel.This movie, including the musical soundtrack of Kagel, was shown in the Festival d'Automne de Paris in 1983 (see program)
Une autre version musicale de ce film est celle composée par le compositeur argentin Martin Matalon. On peut écouter cette oeuvre intitulée "Las siete vidas de un gato" (1996) et remarquablement interprétée par l'Ensemble Ictus dans le CD "De tiempo y de arena" publié en 2003. Il est vivement conseillé de synchroniser cette musique et le film de Bunuel.
Another musical version of that movie was composed by the Argentinian composer Martin Matalon.You can listen to this work entitled "Las siete vidas de un gato" (1996), emarkably interpreted by the Ensemble Ictus, in the CD "De tiempo y de arena" published in 2003. It is strongly advised to synchronize this music and the filmby Bunuel.
The London' s label "Rare Noise Records" was founded in 2008 by Giacomo Bruzzo and the producer Eraldo Bernocchi. Its mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in
progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the
art-form, while choosing not to be bound by pre-conceptions of genre.
3 new releases this last weeks:
Norwegian bassist, composer and producer Jo Berger Myhrehas
long thrived on collaboration, bringing his distinctive voice to a wide
variety of adventurous projects. His captivating and mysterious solo debut is titled "Unheimlich Manoeuvre".
The title is an obvious play on the life-saving technique, though
whether the added negation makes the threatening or simply subverted
remains ambiguous. More to the point, the English translation of unheimlichis “uncanny” or “eerie” – an apt descriptor for the sounds that Myhre creates.
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The Budapest-based trio Jü seems to investigate exponentially larger territories, encompassing an ever-expanding range of vibrant and startling influences. In the fields of blistering rock, dizzying prog, free jazz, mesmerizing ambient textures and alluring Eastern European rhythms, their last opus is their third album : "III"
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The German electro-acoustic composer L.Peter Schwalm and Markus Reuter had a collaboration for a project called "Aufbruch", which means departure, or begining. Their music feels like both an awe-inspiring journey of discovery and a welling up from the murkiest depths of the subconscious. Don't miss it!
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Many others artists were released by this label, as Masami Akita (aka Merzbow), Mats Gustasfsson, Bobby Previte, the band Mumbeak, Keiji Haino ...etc... To notice the presence of the famous trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith with others for the album "Red Hill".
& to come soon
2 new releases to be publish on the 19th november : "Apophenian bliss" by the Norvegian quartet Red Kite & "I hate work" by the american drummer and vocalist Mike Pride
The japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa was a member of a group of avant-garde artists well-known as Shinkankaku-ha (“the school of new
perceptions”) and this experimental film, written in collaboration with
future Nobel Prize Yasunari Kawabata, is a good
representation of their rebellion against realistic representation.
"A page of madness" relève d’une expérience cinématographique puissante. Le rythme y est vertigineux, le cadre, l’éclairage, les décors et le gestuels des comédiens en font un chef-d’œuvre mondial du cinéma muet.
"...acid trip, darkness and deep dadaist bass lines, shamanistic and crispy improvised electronics,
non-melodic psychedelic and foggy extravaganza
compose the sonic mental landscapes of GOL combo..."
Oscar Teppaz - untitled writings 1913
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un "ciné-concert" avec le groupe françaisGOL en 2016 pour la "Semaine du bizarre" à Montreuil
"Proverb" is an exstatic musical composition by Steve Reich for three sopranos, two tenors, two vibraphones, and two electric organs. Composed in 1995 around one unique sentence of the austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein : "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!"
Dans ses notes, Steve Reich écrit : « Bien que les sopranos chantent syllabiquement avec une note pour chaque mot (et chaque mot du texte est monosyllabique), les ténors chantent de longs mélismes sur une seule syllabe. L'influence de Pérotin peut être entendue le plus clairement dans ces duos de ténors contre soprano, qui ressemblent clairement à des Organum à trois parties. Cette même influence joue un rôle plus indirect dans les canons d'augmentation de soprano qui sont suggérés par l'augmentation des notes tenues de ténor dans l'Organum de Pérotin. »source
”La Stazione” est un court-métrage documentaire réalisé par Valerio Zurlini en 1952.
"La Stazione a été, dans l’absolu, le premier exemple de cinéma-vérité, en avance de nombreuses années sur la naissance de ce style. Le documentaire a été tourné en un mois, toujours pendant les heures blafardes de l’aube et il surprenait, d’après nature, la profonde réalité d’une Italie qui n’a pas changé: de pauvres gens endormis dans les salles d’attente de troisième classe, des Italiens du sud attendant le train qui devait les emmener au Nord pour y chercher un emploi et toute la vie nue et secrète de cette belle gare qu’on venait d’inaugurer. Il a été tourné en prise directe, enregistrant les voix égarées qui s’exprimaient dans tous les dialectes et avec tous les accents, sans aucune trame narrative et sans jamais obliger les héros inconscients de ces froides matinées à prendre des attitudes quelconques, volant des images, des sons, des appels, la solitude et l’espoir de pauvres gens impatients de vivre: la caméra n’inventait rien, c’était seulement un témoin attendtif et fidèle de tant d’humilité et de destins si ingrats."- Valerio Zurlini- retranscrit dans le film d'Adolfo Conti "Gli anni delle immagini perdute"
Morten Riis is a danish artist born in 1980.
His music can be characterized as an electronic music that fuses elements of sound art with a more acousmatic and electro-acoustic approach. Lately his artistic work has focused around the investigation of the myriad of errors that arises when working with analogue and digital systems.
In his recent work Morten Riis tries to implement the notion of programmability, control and execution - the fundamentals of electronic and computer music, into a physical mechanical context in an attempt to search for the elementary elements of digital control.
In "Steam Machine Music", the sound material is generated using two music boxes that are
programmable with perforated paper strips, a small Zither - a stringed
instrument played with Meccano pulley wheels thus generating continuous
drones instead of the normal plucking of the strings. Furthermore a
dynamo that generates alternating current, which drives a small Lego
engine which output is feed directly to a mixing desk generating a
continuous tone which frequency is depended of the speed of the steam
engine. Additionally a "drum" machine is incorporated which is built
with Meccano parts that can be programmed to consist of up to four
simple rhythm patterns; and the most important sound generating part is
the sound of the machine itself, the rhythmic patterns and pulsating
drones of the steam engine, the squeaking of the gear trains and the
rattling of the whole structure is all important parts of the sonic
experience.
Dans le train de Moscou à Erevan, Pelechian filme en 1992, caméra à l'épaule,
des hommes et des femmes d'âges et d'ethnies différentes. Tous pris dans
le cours du voyage, toute figure se dilue
dans sa contemplation et tourne à l'abstraction. "Fin" est un hymne au
voyage où l'action est rythmée par le son du train lui-même.
In the Moscow/Yerevan train, Pelechian shot during 1992 men and women of different ages and ethnicities.All caught up during their journey, together in spite of themselves, any figure is diluted in its contemplation and turns into abstraction."End" is a hymn to travel where the action is punctuated by the sound of the train itself.
Sans oublier de voir et revoir son sublime film "Les saisons"
Without forgetting to see again and again his magnificent movie titled "The Seasons"
Hania Rani born in 1990 is a Polish pianist and composer. She composes music for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has
collaborations with Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and
Hior Chronik.
“I decided to rearrange some of my favourite songs, which I have been performing live for years. Recorded live and captured in the iconic Studio S2, one of the recording studios of Polish Radio in Warsaw. The hall is fully covered with light wood, which reminds me of other Radio Studios all around the world - like Funkhaus in Berlin for example. There is a kind of intimacy when playing the little piano in this huge and also very high venue.”Hania Rani
"Con Moto" is composed by Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher’ a preview of the upcoming october album "Inner Symphonies". The video was shot in the historic auditorium of Kraków’s Juliusz Słowacki’s Theater.
"...acoustic instruments and majestic architecture on the one hand, synthesisers and the modern feeling of our work on the other..."
& a review of "music for film and theater" on the blog "a closer listen"
